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What about Global History? Recent Research on Tobacco Production in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 18th to 20th Century - Barbara Hahn. Making Tobacco Bright. Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press 2011. x + 236 pp. ISBN 978-1-421-40286-4, $63 (cloth). - Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff. Colonising Plants in Bihar (1760–1950): Tobacco Betwixt Indigo and Sugar. Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House 2014. xvii + 464 pp. ISBN 978-1-4828-3912-8, $56.88 (paperback).

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1. Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Knopf, 2015).

2. Prakash Kumar, Indigo Plantations and Science in Colonial India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Ulbe Bosma and Jonathan Curry-Machado, “Two Islands, One Commodity: Cuba, Java, and the Global Sugar Trade (1790–1930),” Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (New West Indian Guide) 86 (2012): 237–262. Andrew Zimmerman, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).

3. Jordan Goodman, Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence (London: Routledge, 1995). Michael Kwass, Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014).

4. See, more generally, Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2016).

5. Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, Zephyr Frank, eds., From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2006).

6. For the agency of consumers, see Frank Trentmann, ed., The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Oxford: Berg 2006).

7. Peter M. Jones, Agricultural Enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology and Nature, 1750–1840 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015).

8. Jean Stubbs, “El Habano and the World It Has Shaped: Cuba, Connecticut, and Indonesia,” Cuban Studies 41 (2010): 39–67.

9. For an exclusive focus on the transfer from the Unites States to African regions, see Barbara Hahn, “Paradox of Precision: Bright Tobacco as Technology of Transfer, 1880–1937,” Agricultural History 82 (2008): 220–235.

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