{"product_id":"a-slow-fire-adham-moshasha-9798190719529","title":"A Slow Fire: A History of Tobacco and Cigars Before and After 1492","description":"Tobacco history did not begin in 1492, for that date marks one early European written encounter with a plant, practice, and world of meaning that already had deep roots across the Americas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Slow Fire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e follows tobacco and cigars along a longer human trail, from Indigenous uses and meanings to European misunderstanding, colonial trade, plantation economies, slavery, state monopolies, cigar labor, Cuba, migration, factory culture, lectors, public health battles, modern premium cigar culture, and the stories that gather around smoke. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten as a source-guarded reader edition, this book is a narrative history for readers who want the story behind tobacco and cigars without reducing that story to luxury, nostalgia, or the old myth that everything began with Europe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor \u003ci\u003eCigarfolio \u003c\/i\u003ereaders, cigar enthusiasts, cultural-history readers, and anyone interested in how one plant moved through ritual, empire, labor, law, commerce, memory, and modern pleasure, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Slow Fire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e offers a warmer, more careful way into the subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adham Moshasha,Anas Hamshari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798190719529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.22d","brand":"Adham Moshasha","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666085810431,"sku":"9798190719529","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-slow-fire-adham-moshasha-9798190719529","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}