"In this groundbreaking volume, Juan José Baldrich traces the deep changes affecting Puerto Rican tobacco growers and manufacturers and their export markets from the Spanish colonization of the island to the present."

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- PART I: TOBACCO BEFORE TYPES -- 1 Making Tobacco Virginian -- 2 Growing the Business -- 3 Death and Taxes -- PART II: CONSTRUCTING VARIETALS -- 4 Ripeness Is All -- 5 Inventing Tradition -- 6 Stabilization -- Appendix. The Real...

This introductory piece provides some context to the special edition on business and economic history of Chile and Latin America. It also provides an introduction to better understanding research and method in business history while inviting for this field to be further developed in Chile.