Balkan smoke
Subtitle: tobacco and the making of modern Bulgaria
By: Mary Neuburger
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780801450846
Subjects: Tobacco industry; History; Smoking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coffee house babble : smoking and sociability in the long nineteenth century; title: No smoke without fire : tobacco and transformation, 1878-1914; title: From the Orient Express to the Sofia café : smoke and propriety in the interwar years; title: Asenovgrad fortress : the biography of a tobacco cooperative between the world wars; title: From leaf to ash : Bulgarians, Jews, Germans and the Second World War; title: Smoke-filled rooms : places to light up in communist Bulgaria; title: Smokes for big brother : Bulgartabak and tobacco under communism.