The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World by Charlotte Cosner
English | February 10th, 2015 | ASIN: B00TG7PQL6, ISBN: 0826520324 | 225 Pages | EPUB | 2.29 MB
Through the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an enduring symbol of pleasure and extravagance. Cultivated as one of the first reliable commodities for those inhabitants who remained after conquistadors moved on in search of a mythical wellspring of gold, tobacco quickly became crucial to the support of the swelling Spanish Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.