Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
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Abstract
This book leads readers along the Bulgarian–Ottoman caravan routes and into the coffeehouses of Istanbul and Sofia. It 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, the book provides a fresh perspective on the genesis of modern Bulgaria itself. The tobacco industry comes to shape most of Bulgaria's international relations; it drew Bulgaria into its fateful alliance with Nazi Germany and in the postwar period Bulgaria was the primary supplier of smokes (the famed Bulgarian Gold) for the USSR and its satellites. By the late 1960s, Bulgaria was the number one exporter of tobacco in the world, with roughly one eighth of its population involved in production. The book visits the places where tobacco is grown to meet the merchants, the workers, and the peasant growers, most of whom are Muslim by the postwar period. Along the way, we learn how smoking and anti-smoking impulses influenced perceptions of luxury and necessity, questions of novelty, imitation, value, taste, and gender-based respectability. While the scope is often global, the book also explores the politics of tobacco within Bulgaria.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Coffeehouse Babble: Smoking and Sociability in the Long Nineteenth Century
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No Smoke without Fire: Tobacco and Transformation, 1878–1914
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From the Orient Express to the Sofia Café: Smoke and Propriety in the Interwar Years
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The Tobacco Fortress: Asenovgrad Krepost and the Politics of Tobacco between the World Wars
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From Leaf to Ash: Jews, Germans, and Bulgarian Gold in the Second World War
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Smoke-Filled Rooms: Places to Light Up in Communist Bulgaria
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Smokes for Big Brother: Bulgartabak and Tobacco under Communism
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End Matter
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