Book ReviewsEric Burns. The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. 270 pp.; index. $35.00.Allan M. Brandt. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. New York: Basic Books, 2007. 600 pp.; 32‐page photo insert, index. $36.00.
Book ReviewsAnthony E. Kaye. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 376 pp.; 3 maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.
