Category: Commodities
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization (2003) by Iain Gately
Biographies of basic commodities come in all shapes and sizes. Some are monumental achievements and major award winners, such as Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize winning history of oil (1990) and Sven Beckett’s Bancroft Award winning story of cotton (2014). Others are less inspiring, but fun nevertheless, such Mark Kurlansky’s books about salt (2002) and the…