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Balkan smoke : tobacco and the making of modern Bulgaria /

In Balkan Smoke, Mary Neuburger leads readers along the Bulgarian-Ottoman caravan routes and into the coffeehouses of Istanbul and Sofia. She reveals how a remote country was drawn into global economic networks through tobacco production and consumption and in the process became modern. In writing t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neuburger, Mary, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Coffee house babble : smoking and sociability in the long nineteenth century
  • No smoke without fire : tobacco and transformation, 1878-1914
  • From the Orient Express to the Sofia café : smoke and propriety in the interwar years
  • The tobacco fortress : Asenovgrad Krepost and the politics of tobacco between the World Wars
  • From leaf to ash : Jews, Germans, and Bulgarian gold in the Second World War
  • Smoke-filled rooms : places to light up in communist Bulgaria
  • Smokes for big brother : Bulgartabak and tobacco under communism.