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Book Report

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  • Author : California. Board of State Viticultural Commissioners
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book Report written by California. Board of State Viticultural Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal

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  • Author : California. Legislature
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 567 pages

Download or read book Journal written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Vinaria

Download or read book Bibliotheca Vinaria written by André Louis Simon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book MEMOIRES

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  • Author : ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLESLETTRES DE TOULOUSE.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book MEMOIRES written by ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES, INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLESLETTRES DE TOULOUSE. and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Red and the White

Download or read book The Red and the White written by Leo A. Loubère and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delight of Bacchus, wine has ever been man's solace and joy. Growing out of the poorest soil, the wild grape was tamed and blended over millennia to produce a royal beverage. But the nineteenth century brought a near revolution in the production of wine, and democracy in its consumption; technology made wine an industry, while improved living standards put it on the people's dinner table. The vintners of France and Italy frantically bought land and planted grapes in their attempt to profit from the golden age of wine. But the very technology which made possible swift transportation, with all its benefits to winemen, brought utter devastation from America--the phylloxera aphids--and only when France and Italy had replanted their entire vineyards on American stock did they again supply the thirsty cities and discriminating elite. In an exhaustive examination Professor Loubère follows the wine production process from practices recommended long ago by the Greeks and Romans through the technical changes that occurred in the nineteenth century. He shows how technology interacted with economic, social, and political phenomena to produce a new viticultural world, but one distinct in different regions. Winemen espoused a wide range of politics and economics depending on where they lived, the grapes they grew, and the markets they sought. While a place remained for carefully hand-raised wine, the industry had, by the end of the century, turned to mass production, though it was capable of great quality control and consistency from year to year. The author uses a wide range of sources, including archives and contemporary accounts. The volume contains extensive figures, tables, graphs, and maps.

Book Traite de la Vigne Et de Ses Produits Comprenant

Download or read book Traite de la Vigne Et de Ses Produits Comprenant written by Ludovic Portes and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journals of the Legislature of the State of California

Download or read book Journals of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Naturalists  Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin

Download or read book The Naturalists Leisure Hour and Monthly Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Blood of the Colony

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  • Author : Owen White
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2021-01-12
  • ISBN : 0674248449
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book The Blood of the Colony written by Owen White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of the wine industry’s role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. “We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling of Algeria with Frenchmen,” stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the early 1930s. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Europeans had displaced Algerians from the colony’s best agricultural land and planted grapevines. Soon enough, wine was the primary export of a region whose mostly Muslim inhabitants didn’t drink alcohol. Settlers made fortunes while drawing large numbers of Algerians into salaried work for the first time. But the success of Algerian wine resulted in friction with French producers, challenging the traditional view that imperial possessions should complement, not compete with, the metropole. By the middle of the twentieth century, amid the fight for independence, Algerians had come to see the rows of vines as an especially hated symbol of French domination. After the war, Algerians had to decide how far they would go to undo the transformations the colonists had wrought—including the world’s fourth-biggest wine industry. Owen White examines Algeria’s experiment with nationalized wine production in worker-run vineyards, the pressures that resulted in the failure of that experiment, and the eventual uprooting of most of the country’s vines. With a special focus on individual experiences of empire, from the wealthiest Europeans to the poorest laborers in the fields, The Blood of the Colony shows the central role of wine in the economic life of French Algeria and in its settler culture. White makes clear that the industry left a long-term mark on the development of the nation.

Book Journey Through Wine

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  • Author : Adrien Grant Smith Bianchi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-08
  • ISBN : 9781743794746
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Journey Through Wine written by Adrien Grant Smith Bianchi and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to your tour of the wine-growing world. Wine has rolled its barrel from the shores of the Black Sea to the mountains of the Andes, following humans and their dreams. But just how did a Pyrenean grape variety end up in Uruguay? And by what means were grapevines able to reach Japan? This book goes back through time to retrace the grape's conquest of the world, stopping in each winemaking country, from the oldest to the most recent, to discover wines past and present, while also looking to the future.

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bordeaux Burgundy

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  • Author : Jean-Robert Pitte
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2012-07-09
  • ISBN : 0520274555
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Bordeaux Burgundy written by Jean-Robert Pitte and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating social history of the wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy from their origins to the present day: their contrasts and rivalries, their advocates and their detractors. This will entertain all lovers of the wines of the two greatest regions in the world."—Clive Coates, MW, author of The Wines of Bordeaux "Anyone who thinks they are only grape-varieties apart must read this. It brilliantly evokes two cultures as different as...Bordeaux and Burgundy."—Hugh Johnson, author of The World Atlas of Wine "A mouthwatering journey in search of tastes and flavors. . . . A striking synthesis of remarkable horizons."—Le Monde "A well documented book delivered in an earthy style, to be read without moderation, whether you prefer Bordeaux or Burgundy."—Alternatives économiques

Book The Sober Revolution

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  • Author : Joseph Bohling
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-12-15
  • ISBN : 1501716069
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Sober Revolution written by Joseph Bohling and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burgundy, Bordeaux, Champagne. The names of these and other French regions bring to mind time-honored winemaking practices. Yet the link between wine and place, in French known as terroir, was not a given. In The Sober Revolution, Joseph Bohling inverts our understanding of French wine history by revealing a modern connection between wine and place, one with profound ties to such diverse and sometimes unlikely issues as alcoholism, drunk driving, regional tourism, Algeria’s independence from French rule, and integration into the European Economic Community. In the 1930s, cheap, mass-produced wines from the Languedoc region of southern France and French Algeria dominated French markets. Artisanal wine producers, worried about the impact of these "inferior" products on the reputation of their wines, created a system of regional appellation labeling to reform the industry in their favor by linking quality to the place of origin. At the same time, the loss of Algeria, once the world’s largest wine exporter, forced the industry to rethink wine production. Over several decades, appellation producers were joined by technocrats, public health activists, tourism boosters, and other dynamic economic actors who blamed cheap industrial wine for hindering efforts to modernize France. Today, scholars, food activists, and wine enthusiasts see the appellation system as a counterweight to globalization and industrial food. But, as The Sober Revolution reveals, French efforts to localize wine and integrate into global markets were not antagonistic but instead mutually dependent. The time-honored winemaking practices that we associate with a pastoral vision of traditional France were in fact a strategy deployed by the wine industry to meet the challenges and opportunities of the post-1945 international economy. France’s luxury wine producers were more market savvy than we realize.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Food History

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Food History written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food matters, not only as a subject of study in its own right, but also as a medium for conveying critical messages about capitalism, the environment, and social inequality to diverse audiences. Recent scholarship on the subject draws from both a pathbreaking body of secondary literature and an inexhaustible wealth of primary sources--from ancient Chinese philosophical tracts to McDonald's menus--contributing new perspectives to the historical study of food, culture, and society, and challenging the limits of history itself. The Oxford Handbook of Food History places existing works in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological, and geographic boundaries while also suggesting new routes for future research. The twenty-seven essays in this book are organized into five sections: historiography, disciplinary approaches, production, circulation, and consumption of food. The first two sections examine the foundations of food history, not only in relation to key developments in the discipline of history itself--such as the French Annales school and the cultural turn--but also in anthropology, sociology, geography, pedagogy, and the emerging Critical Nutrition Studies. The following three sections sketch various trajectories of food as it travels from farm to table, factory to eatery, nature to society. Each section balances material, cultural, and intellectual concerns, whether juxtaposing questions of agriculture and the environment with the notion of cookbooks as historical documents; early human migrations with modern culinary tourism; or religious customs with social activism. In its vast, interdisciplinary scope, this handbook brings students and scholars an authoritative guide to a field with fresh insights into one of the most fundamental human concerns.