By Eric Burns
Eric Burns, who chronicled the social historical past of alcohol in "The Spirits of the United States" turns to tobacco in "The Smoke of the Gods". starting from precedent days to the current day, "The Smoke of the Gods" is a full of life background of tobacco, specially within the usa. even if tobacco use is debatable within the U.S. this day, Burns reminds us that this used to be now not constantly the case. for hundreds of years tobacco used to be in general idea to have medicinal or even non secular worth. many of the signers of the assertion of Independence have been tobacco clients or growers, or either. in response to Burns, tobacco replaced the very process U.S. historical past, simply because its discovery triggered the British to aid Jamestown, its suffering New international colony. An exciting and informative examine a topic that makes day-by-day information headlines, "The Smoke of the Gods" is a background that's, good, really addictive.
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Not content merely to have committed his bile to paper, James considered T h e E n e m i e s o f To b a c c o 47 making tobacco illegal, discussing the possibility with his advisers. But they warned against it, reminding James as delicately as possible that he was already having a problem with his image. In his relatively brief time on the throne, he had alienated Parliament over the issue of Divine Right, his own Anglican church over the issue of lay participation, and the Catholic church over whether it was even entitled to exist within British borders.
Those who did not know him well were advised to stay alert in his presence. But he did not look menacing. Rather, he appeared every inch the dandy. “His customary cartwheel ruff was his most extravagant gesture to foppishness,” writes the historian Giles Milton, “spreading peacocklike from his neck in dentilated lace. ” He was impossible to miss in a crowd of any size, of any constituency. What made him so effective a spokesman for tobacco, though, was his relationship with the queen, Elizabeth I, a woman of poise and naturally regal bearing who also had a dismissive manner at times, and meager reserves of patience.
On one occasion, he even scratched a few lines of verse onto a palace window. And, on all occasions, he treated her with great solicitude, seeming in her company to have no concern other than her comfort and well-being. Once upon a rainy day, it has been written, Raleigh removed his “new plush cloak” and spread it upon the ground so that Elizabeth could cross “a plashy place” in the road without getting her feet wet. The story is almost certainly apocryphal but worth repeating, as so many have done, for what it tells us about the friendship between monarch and citizen.