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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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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.