Tobacco Counterpoints

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Jean Stubbs has published widely on Cuba with a specialist interest in tobacco class race gender nation and migration. In 1985 she established her place as a pre-eminent historian of Cuban tobacco with the publication of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Tobacco on the Periphery </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>(a new expanded edition of which was published by Amaurea Press in 2023). Her foundational work on Cuban tobacco and especially the Havana cigar led her to trace cultivation trade manufacture labour and consumption on a regional and global scale linking commodity and migration histories drawing on sociological anthropological and agronomic approaches as well as archival and oral history. Now for the first time her extensive writings have been collected into a single volume containing 19 of her tobacco-related articles published between 1982 and 2024.</span></p>