<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AHS</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Advances in Historical Studies</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2327-0438</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ahs.2016.52005</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AHS-65487</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Social Sciences&amp;Humanities</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Tobacco Roads: Histories of Technologies and a Transnational Economy
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>elinda</surname><given-names>Plastas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Maria</surname><given-names>Rentetzi</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Women and Gender Studies, Bates Colleges, Bates, IA, USA</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>mplastas@bates.edu(EP)</email>;<email>mrentetz@vt.edu(MR)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>14</day><month>04</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>05</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>45</fpage><lpage>48</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>7</day>	<month>January</month>	<year>2016</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>11</month>	<year>April</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>14</day>	<month>April</month>	<year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  Introductory essay about the special issue on &quot;
  Tobacco Roads History: Science, Society and Technology&quot;.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>History of Tobacco</kwd><kwd> Tobacco Trade</kwd><kwd> Tobacco Technologies</kwd><kwd> Gender</kwd><kwd> Transnationalism</kwd><kwd> History of Commodities</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Melinda Plastas,Maria Rentetzi, (2016) Tobacco Roads: Histories of Technologies and a Transnational Economy. Advances in Historical Studies,05,45-48. doi: 10.4236/ahs.2016.52005</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.65487-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="book" xlink:type="simple">Avdela, E. (1998). Class, Ethnicity and Gender in Post-Ottoman Thessaloniki. In B. Melman (Ed.), Borderlines: Genders and Identities in Peace and War (1880-1930) (pp. 421-438). London and New York: Routledge.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.65487-ref2"><label>2</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Benedicts, C. (2011). Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520262775.001.0001</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.65487-ref3"><label>3</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Benson, P. (2012). Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.65487-ref4"><label>4</label><mixed-citation publication-type="journal" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Cooper</surname><given-names> P. </given-names></name>,<etal>et al</etal>. (<year>1988</year>)<article-title>. What This Country Needs Is a Good Five-Cent Cigar</article-title><source> Technology and Culture</source><volume> 29</volume>,<fpage> 779</fpage>-<lpage>807</lpage>.<pub-id pub-id-type="doi"></pub-id></mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.65487-ref5"><label>5</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Kulikoff, A. (1986). Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.65487-ref6"><label>6</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Neuburger, M. (2012). Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.65487-ref7"><label>7</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Plastas, M. (2013). “To Know Tobacco”: Museums and Memory. Paper Presented at the Technology Transfer in the Tobacco Industry during the Early Twentieth Century conference, Kavalla, Greece.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.65487-ref8"><label>8</label><mixed-citation publication-type="journal" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Rentetzi</surname><given-names> M. </given-names></name>,<etal>et al</etal>. (<year>2008</year>)<article-title>. Configuring Identities Through Industrial Architecture and Urban Planning: Greek Tobacco Warehouses in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century</article-title><source> Science Studies</source><volume> 21</volume>,<fpage> 64</fpage>-<lpage>81</lpage>.<pub-id pub-id-type="doi"></pub-id></mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.65487-ref9"><label>9</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Shechter, R. (2006). Smoking, Culture, and Economy in the Middle East: The Egyptian Tobacco Market, 1850-2000. London: I.B. Tauris and Company.</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>