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The sober revolution : appellation wine and the transformation of France / Joseph Bohling.
LIBRA HD9382.5 .B64 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bohling, Joseph, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wine industry--France--History--20th century.
- Wine industry.
- Wine and wine making--Marks of origin--France--History--20th century.
- Wine and wine making.
- Wine and wine making--Marks of origin.
- History.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This book inverts our understanding of French wine by showing how the celebrated regional appellation system was a deliberate capitalist strategy to take advantage of global markets, as opposed to an inherently traditional way of making and classifying wine"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Under the influence
- The imperative of intervention
- Quantity or quality?
- Drinking and driving
- Europeanizing the revolution
- Conclusion : terroir vs. McWorld.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bohling, Joseph, 1978- Sober revolution.
- ISBN:
- 9781501716041
- 1501716042
- OCLC:
- 1028890050
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