{"product_id":"smoking-under-the-tsars-tricia-starks-9781501722059","title":"Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003eApproaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, \u003ci\u003eSmoking under the Tsars\u003c\/i\u003e provides an unparalleled view of Russia's early adoption of smoking. Tricia Starks introduces us to the addictive, nicotine-soaked Russian version of the cigarette--the\u003ci\u003e papirosa\u003c\/i\u003e--and the sensory, medical, social, cultural, and gendered consequences of this unique style of tobacco use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarting with the \u003ci\u003epapirosa\u003c\/i\u003e's introduction in the nineteenth century and its foundation as a cultural and imperial construct, Starks situates the cigarette's emergence as a mass-use product of revolutionary potential. She discusses the \u003ci\u003epapirosa\u003c\/i\u003e as a moral and medical problem, tracks the ways in which it was marketed as a liberating object, and concludes that it has become a point of increasing conflict for users, reformers, and purveyors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heavily illustrated \u003ci\u003eSmoking under the Tsars\u003c\/i\u003e taps into bountiful material in newspapers, industry publications, etiquette manuals, propaganda posters, popular literature, memoirs, cartoons, poetry, and advertising. Starks frames her history within the latest scholarship in imperial and early Soviet history and public health, anthropology and addiction studies. The result is an ambitious social and cultural exploration of the interaction of institutions, ideas, practice, policy, consumption, identity, and the body. Starks has reconstructed how Russian smokers experienced, understood, and presented their habit in all its biological, psychological, social, and sensory inflections, providing the reader with incredible images and a unique application of anthropology and sensory analysis to the experience of tobacco dependency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tricia Starks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501722050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501722059\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019","brand":"Tricia Starks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935202574591,"sku":"9781501722059","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_24df01da-338e-47a8-ad0a-f5238634e24e.jpg?v=1681418452","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/smoking-under-the-tsars-tricia-starks-9781501722059","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}