The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World

Nice, concise overview of Cuba's colonial tobacco trade. I'm principally familiar with Virginia history, so this detailed snapshot of her major competitor's policies and practices was an entertaining counterbalance. Exceedingly well researched, I judge this as I judge any good history, by the notations and references which comprise the back half of the work, and they don't disappoint. For Anglocentric readers like me, Dr. Cosner places her subject in the greater context of the European colonial Atlantic world at large.