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Mary C. Neuburger - Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria - 9781501705724 - V9781501705724
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Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria

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Description for Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16, 15 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWB; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
In Balkan Smoke, Mary C. 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 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. The tobacco trade comes to shape most of Bulgaria's international relations; it drew ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501705724
SKU
V9781501705724
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Mary C. Neuburger
Mary C. Neuburger is Director of the Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria and The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of ... Read more

Reviews for Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
With Balkan Smoke, Mary C. Neuburger has established herself as a trailblazer in twentieth-century Eastern European history. She effectively exploits the history of one commodity, in this case tobacco, to illuminate a wide range of interconnected economic, cultural, and social transformations in communist Bulgaria. Using tobacco, Neuburger rethinks the functioning of communist economies and the potential for entrepreneurial creativity within ... Read more

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