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tobacco (studies)
This page supplements the note
on benchmarks in the tobacco industry, highlighting literature
on the industry and individual enterprises.
It covers -
overviews
Studies
include Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year War,
the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip
Morris (New York: Knopf 1996) by Richard Kluger,
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly
Persistence of the Product That Defined America (New
York: Basic Books 2007) by Allan Brandt, Iain Gately's
Tobacco: The Story of How Tobacco Seduced the World
(New York: Grove 2001) and Tara Parker-Pope's Cigarettes:
Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke (New York:
New Press 2001).
The fin de siecle merger movement is discussed in Market
Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose It and the Impact
on Economic Performance (Westport: Praeger 1998)
edited by David Rosenbaum and Socializing Capital:
The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America
(Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 1997) by William Roy.
For legal perspectives see Regulating Tobacco
(New York: Oxford Uni Press 2005) edited by Robert Rabin
& Stephen Sugarman, Up In Smoke: From Legislation
To Litigation In Tobacco Politics (Washington: CQ
Press 2004) by Martha Derthick, Cornered: Big Tobacco
at the Bar of Justice (New York: Holt 1998) by Peter
Pringle, The People vs. Big Tobacco: How the States
Took on the Cigarette Giants (Princeton: Bloomberg
Press 1998) by Carrick Mollenkamp and Coffin Nails
and Corporate Strategies (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall
1982) by Robert Miles & Kim Cameron.
For anti-smoking campaigns see The Nazi War On Cancer
(Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 1999) by Robert Proctor,
Cigarette Wars, The Triumph of the Little White Slaver
(New York: Oxford Uni Press 1999) by Cassandra Tate and
Advertising Sin and Sickness: The Politics of Alcohol
and Tobacco Marketing 1950-1990 (DeKalb: Northern
Illinois Uni Press 2007) by Pamela Pennock.
corporate histories
For Reynolds see Nannie Tilley's The R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company (Chapel Hill: Uni of North Carolina
Press 1985), Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR
Nabisco (New York: HarperBusiness 1991) by Bryan
Burrough & John Helyar and the more parochial Lost
Empire: The Fall of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
(Winston-Salem: Winston-Salem Journal 2000) by Frank Tursi,
Susan White & Steve McQuilkin
For the UK see in particular Howard Cox' The Global
Cigarette: Origins and Evolution of British American Tobacco,
1880-1945 (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 2000), WD
& HO Wills and the development of the UK tobacco industry,
1786-1965 (London: Methuen 1973) by WE Alford, Alfred
Dunhill: One Hundred Years and More (London: Weidenfeld
& Nicolson 1992) by Michael Balfour,
Colonial rivalries are highlighted in Sherman Cochran's
Big Business in China: Sino-foreign Rivalry in the
Cigarette Industry, 1890-1930 (Cambridge: Harvard
Uni Press 1980) and Relli Schechter's Smoking, Culture
and Economy in the Middle East: The Egyptian Tobacco Market
1850-2000 (London: IB Tauris 2006).
biographies
Much of the literature on industry figures is hagiographical
and should be read with caution.
Works on Duke include John Winkler's Tobacco Tycoon,
The Story of James Buchanan Duke (New York: Random
1942) and John Jenkins' James B. Duke: Master Builder;
The Story of Tobacco, Development of Southern and Canadian
Water-Power and the Creation of a University (New
York: Doran 1927), Robert Durden's The Dukes of Durham,
1865-1929 (Durham: Duke Uni Press 1975) and Lasting
Legacy to the Carolinas: The Duke Endowment, 1924-1994
(Durham: Duke Uni Press 1998) and Bold Entrepreneur:
A Life of James B. Duke (Durham: Carolina Academic
Press 2003).
A perspective on the Reynolds clan is provided in The
Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco - Three Generations
of the RJ Reynolds Family and Fortune (Boston: Little,
Brown 1989) by Patrick Reynolds & Tom Shachtman and
A World of Her Own Making:
Katharine Smith Reynolds Johnston and the Landscape of
Reynolda (Amherst: Uni of Massachusetts Press 2007)
by Catherine Howett.
Anton Rupert appears in Ebbe Dommisse & Willie Esterhuyse's
Anton Rupert: A Biography (Capetown: Tafelberg
2005). There has been no english-language biography of
Jan Philipp Reemstra.
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