Author: HILTON, MATTHEW
Title: Smoking in British popular culture, (1800-2000) : perfect pleasures / Matthew Hilton
Description: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press 2000. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Provenance; from the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with its presentation bookplate. being presented by the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund. Series; Studies in popular culture. Physical description; xii. 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Section A Culture - the pipe and cogar in Victorian Britain: good companions - bourgeois man and the divine Lady Nicotine; 'Vanity Fair' - a panoply of Victorian smokers; the 'evils of smoking' in the Victorian anti-tobacco movement. Section B Economy - the cigarette and the mass market in the early 20th century: 'Player's please' - the cigarette and the mass market; 'Man and His Cigarette' - masculinity and the mass market; consuming the unrespectable - smoking and femininity; juvenile smoking and 'the feverish desire to become a man'. Section C Science - cancer and the politics of smoking since 1950: smoking and health - the medical understanding of tobacco; the presentation of medical knowledge in the media; 'It never did me any harm' - science in culture. Conclusion. or 'why lighting up is cool again'. Summary; A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early-19th century to the end of the 20th century. It explores the culture of the pipe and the cigar in the 19th century. the role of the cigarette in the mass market economy of the early-20th century. and the politics of smoking and health since the 1950s. Hilton argues that a particular culture of smoking celebrated at the end of the 19th century. together with certain economic and political forces. came to dominate the meaning of tobacco within popular culture. and acted as an important bulwark against state intervention in the sphere of public health. By combining a wide range of historical sources with examples drawn from film and popular literature to provide a comprehensive social. cultural and economic history of smoking. the book traces the production. promotion and consumption of tobacco as well as outlining the arguments that have variously opposed this ever-controversial drug. Important themes explored include the importance of consumption to constructions of masculinity and femininity. the role of the state in the official regulation of the 'minor vices'. the morality of consumption and the position of scientific knowledge within popular culture. Subjects; 19th Century. 20th Century. 21st Century. Smoking — history. Tobacco Industry — history. Gender Identity. Advertising as Topic. Manners and customs. Popular culture. Smoking. Smoking — Great Britain. Popular culture — Great Britain. Smoking — Great Britain — History. Popular culture — Great Britain — History — 19th century. Popular culture — Great Britain — History — 20th century. Tobacco industry — Great Britain — History. Advertising — Cigarettes — History. Popular culture — Great Britain — History. Smoking — history — Great Britain. Smoking. History. Culture. Tobacco. Tobacco Advertising. Smoking — Social aspects — Great Britain. Tobacco use — Social aspects — Great Britain. Great Britain — Social life and customs — 19th century. Great Britain — Social life and customs — 20th century. British & Irish history ; Customs ; World history: (c 1750 to c 1900) ; Social & cultural history ; Popular culture. World history: from (c 1900 -). United Kingdom. Great Britain ; (c 1800 to c 1900) ; 20th century. History / Europe / Great Britain / General. Smoking ; Social aspects ; Great Britain ; Tobacco habit. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. ISBN: 0719052572. Weight in Kg appr.:

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