Excerpt: Cigarettes Are Central to the History of Corporate Power

Truthout.org has published an excerpt from Cigarettes, Inc.

In Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, author Nan Enstad reveals how the definitive moments in the expansion of corporate power took place through one of capitalism’s deadliest commodities. Challenging the centrality of the entrepreneur to the story, Enstad instead presents a global history in which Jim Crow, jazz and empire are central to the rise of the mass-produced cigarette.

You can read the full excerpt over at TruthOut!

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