Policy-makers sanctioned projects that seemed to offer viable solutions to poverty and idleness while bolstering regional and national economies.Footnote 32 At the same time, tobaccos association with America invariably contributed to the way that elite and non-elite consumers participated in a burgeoning Atlantic economy.Footnote 33 Sailors, smugglers, pedlars, and merchants played vital roles in circulating tobacco, disseminating the plant from ports to localities while also conveying travel news.Footnote 34 Scholars have turned to the effects of intoxication on the body, examining how social practices around tobacco, as with different kinds of alcohol or, later, coffee and tea, developed in ways that resisted or bolstered state authority.Footnote 35 By situating consumption within socio-political change, these studies have moved away from the cultural materialist approaches of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that focussed on tobaccos sovereignty or dominance over people and economic markets, where an emphasis on the commodification or fetishizing of luxury goods gave little agency to the behaviour of English subjects.Footnote 36 To consider what Arjun Appadurai calls the social life of things presents an opportunity to think about exchange and value in relation to their particular contexts and the politics behind them.Footnote 37 This involves an attention to the geopolitics of particular colonies and their relationship to their indigenous inhabitants, as well as a consideration of how metropolitan contexts re-shaped conditions of use
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