| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jarrett Rudy. The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity. (Studies on the History of Quebec, number 18.) Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 232. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.95.

This is an engaging and innovative cultural history of smoking. Jarrett Rudy's focus is on Montreal, but there is much here that will be of interest to non-Canadianists. Gender as a category of historical analysis remains central throughout the study as Rudy traces the cultural, social, and political significance of smoking from the late nineteenth century into the mid-twentieth century. Recognizing that for the period under study Montreal was in some ways a typical North American urban center, but also a unique site in which Canada's two dominant ethnic groups awkwardly confronted each other on a daily basis, Rudy succeeds in highlighting both the city's particular relationship to tobacco culture and its place within the world system of tobacco production and consumption.

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