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In this paper, clay pipes and the historical record are used to explore the illicit importation of tobacco in seventeenth-century Galway, Ireland. This is part of a wider tradition of the politics of smoking, including the proliferation of the clay pipe, the widespread smuggling of tobacco, and the overtly political nineteenth-century pipes that touted nationalist emblems. Here, the juxtaposition of the archaeological and historical records locates subversive local agency in the face of overarching colonial mandates. Colonialism, trade, consumption, and identity are linked in an examination of a merchant community's maneuvers through the expanding Atlantic economy and the restricted colonial mandates that marked the world around them.
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Hartnett, A. The Politics of the Pipe: Clay Pipes and Tobacco Consumption in Galway, Ireland. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 8, 133–147 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:IJHA.0000043698.64896.8b
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