Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800–2000

Matthew Hilton, Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Mortimer

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English

Manchester University Press
04 May 2000

British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Sociology: customs & traditions

Series: Studies in Popular Culture

A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early-19th century to the end of the 20th century. It explores the culture of the pipe and the cigar in the 19th century, the role of the cigarette in the mass market economy of the early-20th century, and the politics of smoking and health since the 1950s. Hilton argues that a particular culture of smoking celebrated at the end of the 19th century, together with certain economic and political forces, came to dominate the meaning of tobacco within popular culture, and acted as an important bulwark against state intervention in the sphere of public health. By combining a wide range of historical sources with examples drawn from film and popular literature to provide a comprehensive social, cultural and economic history of smoking, the book traces the production, promotion and consumption of tobacco as well as outlining the arguments that have variously opposed this ever-controversial drug.

Important themes explored include the importance of consumption to constructions of masculinity and femininity, the role of the state in the official regulation of the ""minor vices"", the morality of consumption and the position of scientific knowledge within popular culture.

By: Matthew Hilton
Series edited by: Jeffrey Richards
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9780719052576
ISBN 10: 0719052572
Series: Studies in Popular Culture
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 May 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Section A: Culture- the pipe and the cigar in Victorian Britain 1. Good companions: bourgeois man and the divine Lady Nicotine 2. Vanity Fair: a panoply of Victorian smokers 3. The evils of smoking in the Victorian anti-tabacco movement Section B: Economy: the cigarette and the mass market in the early twentieth century 4. 'Players Please': the cigrarette and the mass market 5. Man and his Cigarette: masculinity and the mass market 6. Consuming the unrespectable: smoking and femininity 7. Juvenile smoking and 'the feverish anxiety to become a man' Section C: Science - cancer and the politics of smoking since 1950 8. Smoking and health: the medical understanding of tabacco 9. The presentation of medical knowledge in the media 10. 'It never did me any harm': science in culture Conclusion, or 'why lighting up is cool again'. -- .

Matthew Hilton is Lecturer in Social History at the University of Birmingham

Reviews for Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800–2000

.."".its elegant handling of a wide range of cultural and economic sources illuminate[s]...popular consumption.""--Frank Mort, American Historical Review .""..its elegant handling of a wide range of cultural and economic sources illuminate[s]...popular consumption.""--Frank Mort, American Historical Review .,.""its elegant handling of a wide range of cultural and economic sources illuminate[s]...popular consumption.""--Frank Mort, American Historical Review ...""its elegant handling of a wide range of cultural and economic sources illuminateÝs¨...popular consumption.""--Frank Mort, American Historical Review