Jean Stubbs has published widely on Cuba, with a specialist interest in tobacco, class, race, gender nation and migration. In 1985 she established her place as a pre-eminent historian of Cuban tobacco with the publication of Tobacco on the Periphery (a new expanded edition of which was published by Amaurea Press in 2023). Her foundational work on Cuban tobacco, and especially the Havana cigar, led her to trace cultivation, trade, manufacture, labour and consumption on a regional and global scale, linking commodity and migration histories, drawing on sociological, anthropological and agronomic approaches, as well as archival and oral history. Now for the first time, her extensive writings have been collected into a single volume, containing 19 of her tobacco-related articles published between 1982 and 2024.
Table des matières
Part One: Class, Race, Gender and Nation
1. Dandy or Rake? Cigar Makers in Cuba, 1860-1958
2. Labour and Economy in Cuban Tobacco, 1860-1958
3. Women on the Agenda: The Cooperative Movement in Rural Cuba
4. Gender Issues in Contemporary Cuban Tobacco Farming
5. Gender Constructs of Labour in Pre-revolutionary Cuban Tobacco
6. Women and Cuban Smallholder Agriculture in Transition
Part Two: Nation and Migration
7. Political Idealism and Commodity Production: Cuban Tobacco in Jamaica, 1870-1930
8. Turning Over a New Leaf? The Havana Cigar Revisited
9. Tobacco in the Contrapunteo: Ortiz and the Havana Cigar
10. Havana Cigars and the West’s Imagination
11. Reflections on Class, Race, Gender and Nation in Cuban Tobacco, 1850-2000
12. Reinventing Mecca: Tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 1763-2007
Part Three: Transnation
13. El Habano and the World it has Shaped: Cuba, Connecticut and Indonesia
14. Beyond the Black Atlantic: Understanding Race, Gender and Labour in the Global Havana Cigar
15. El Habano: The Global Luxury Smoke
16. Transnationalism and the Havana Cigar: Commodity Chains, Networks, and Knowledge Circulation
17. Beyond Iberian Atlantic Spaces: Trans-imperial & Trans-territorial Entanglements in Havana Cigar History (1756-1924)
18. Cuba-Canaries Havana Cigar Connections: A Hemispheric, Transatlantic and Global History
19. Dominican, Puerto Rican and Cuban tobacco in the Long Shadow of Monopoly (1717-1930)
A propos de l’auteur
Jean Stubbs first went to Cuba in 1968 to conduct research. She married there, had two children, and lived and worked in Havana until 1987. Now based in London, she has published widely on Cuba, with a specialist interest in tobacco, class, race, gender, nation and migration. Her foundational work on Cuban tobacco, and especially the Havana cigar, led her to trace cultivation, trade, manufacture, labour and consumption on a regional and global scale, drawing on sociological, anthropological and agronomic approaches, as well as archival and oral history. Professor Emerita of London Metropolitan University, she is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (University of London) and the Institute of the Americas (University College London). In 2009, she was awarded the UNESCO Toussaint Louverture Medal, and in 2012 was elected member of the Cuban Academy of History.