Tobacco Counterpoints

Jean Stubbs has published widely on Cuba, with a specialist interest in tobacco, class, race, gender nation and migration. In 1985 she established her place as a pre-eminent historian of Cuban tobacco with the publication of  Tobacco on the Periphery  (a new expanded edition of which was published by Amaurea Press in 2023). Her foundational work on Cuban tobacco, and especially the Havana cigar, led her to trace cultivation, trade, manufacture, labour and consumption on a regional and