Imperial wine : how the British empire made wine's new world /

"Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain's surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here, historian Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history and imperial history, presenting provocative new resea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Temas:
Wine and wine making > Colonies > Great Britain.
Viticulture > Colonies > Great Britain.
Wine and wine making > Australia.
Wine and wine making > New Zealand.
Wine and wine making > South Africa.
Wine industry > History.
Viticulture > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies.
Vin > Industrie > Histoire.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Wine and wine making.
Wine industry.
Australia.
Great Britain.
New Zealand.
South Africa.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Writing about wine
  • Why Britain?
  • Dutch courage : the first wine at the Cape
  • First fleet, first flight : creating Australian vineyards
  • Astonished by the fruit : New Zealand's first grapes
  • Cheap and wholesome : Cape producers and British tariffs
  • Echunga hock : colonial wines of the nineteenth century
  • Have you any colonial wine? Australian producers and British tariffs
  • Planting and pruning : working the colonial vineyard
  • Sulphur! phylloxera and other pests
  • Served chilled : British consumers in the Victorian era
  • From Melbourne to Madras : Wine in India, Cyprus, Malta, and Canada
  • Plonk! colonial wine and the First World War
  • Fortification : the dominions and the interwar period
  • Crude potions : the British market for empire wines
  • Doodle bugs destroyed our cellar: wine in the Second World War
  • And a glass of wine: colonial wines in the postwar society
  • Good fighting wine : colonial wines battle back
  • All bar one : the new world conquers the British market
  • Conclusions.

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