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Cigarettes, Inc. : an intimate history of corporate imperialism

Enstad, Nan, author

Overview

Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity--for good or ill--to the rest of the world. With Cigarettes, Inc., Nan Enstad upends this story, revealing the myriad cross-cultural encounters that produced corporate life before World War II. In this startling account of innovation and expansion, Enstad uncovers a corporate network rooted in Jim Crow segregation that stretched between the United States and China and beyond. Cigarettes, Inc. teems with a global cast--from Egyptian, American, and Chinese entrepreneurs to a multiracial set of farmers, merchants, factory workers, marketers, and even baseball players, jazz musicians, and sex workers. Through their stories, Cigarettes, Inc. accounts for the cigarette's spectacular rise in popularity and in the process offers nothing less than a sweeping reinterpretation of corporate power itself.

• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Subject: British American Tobacco Company History. / British-American Tobacco Co. (China) History. / British-American Tobacco Co. (China) / British American Tobacco Company. / Cigarette industry United States History. / Cigarette industry China History. / Cigarette industry. / HISTORY / Asia / China. / China. / United States.
• ISBN: 9780226533285, 022653328X, 9780226533315, 022653331X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD9149.C5 U5535 2018	1	BOOK	BUSINESS