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Tobacco-taking and identity-making in early modern Britain and North America
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McShane, Angela (2022) Tobacco-taking and identity-making in early modern Britain and North America. The Historical Journal, 65 (1). pp. 108-129. doi:10.1017/S0018246X21000273 ISSN 0018-246X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X21000273
Abstract
This article explores the praxis of transatlantic snuff- and tobacco-taking and its importance to personal and national identity-making over the long eighteenth century. It focuses in particular on the role of snuff- and tobacco boxes, which uniquely provided white middling-sorts on both sides of the Atlantic with a socialized canvas upon which significant statements of status, personality, and sensibility could be made. However, a closer study of these objects during America's revolutionary period reveals stark contrasts in the social, political, and gendered meanings ascribed to tobacco-taking between Britain and America. The material evidence, it is argued, suggests that for men, and especially for women in revolutionary America, snuff- and tobacco-taking became almost synonymous with loyalty to the republic.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Historical Journal | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0018-246X | ||||||
Official Date: | February 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 65 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 108-129 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0018246X21000273 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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