Format:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
ISBN:
9780801450846
Content:
In writing the life of tobacco in Bulgaria from the late Ottoman period through the years of Communist rule, Neuburger gives us much more than the cultural history of a commodity; she provides a fresh perspective on the genesis of modern Bulgaria itself.
Content:
Balkan Smoke -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Coffeehouse Babble: Smoking and Sociability in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 2. No Smoke without Fire: Tobacco and Transformation, 1878-1914 -- 3. From the Orient Express to the SofiaCafé: Smoke and Propriety in the Interwar Years -- 4. The Tobacco Fortress: Asenovgrad Krepost and the Politics of Tobacco between the World Wars -- 5. From Leaf to Ash: Jews, Germans, and Bulgarian Gold in the Second World War -- 6. Smoke-Filled Rooms: Places to Light Up in Communist Bulgaria -- 7. Smokes for Big Brother: Bulgartabak and Tobacco under Communism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801465949
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801450846
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Balkan Smoke : Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
Language:
English
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