A History of Wine in America, Volume 2 : From Prohibition to the Present / Thomas Pinney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinney, Thomas, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wine industry--United States--History.

Wine industry.

Wine and wine making--United States--History.

Wine and wine making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (549 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A History of Wine in America is the definitive account of winemaking in the United States, first as it was carried out under Prohibition, and then as it developed and spread to all fifty states after the repeal of Prohibition. Engagingly written, exhaustively researched, and rich in detail, this book describes how Prohibition devastated the wine industry, the conditions of renewal after Repeal, the various New Deal measures that affected wine, and the early markets and methods. Thomas Pinney goes on to examine the effects of World War II and how the troubled postwar years led to the great wine boom of the late 1960's, the spread of winegrowing to almost every state, and its continued expansion to the present day. The history of wine in America is, in many ways, the history of America and of American enterprise in microcosm. Pinney's sweeping narrative comprises a lively cast of characters that includes politicians, bootleggers, entrepreneurs, growers, scientists, and visionaries. Pinney relates the development of winemaking in states such as New York and Ohio; its extension to Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas, and other states; and its notable successes in California, Washington, and Oregon. He is the first to tell the complete and connected story of the rebirth of the wine industry in California, now one of the most successful winemaking regions in the world.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List Of Illustrations

Preface And Acknowledgments

1. Forms Of Life In A Dry World

2. The Rules Change

3. The Dismal '30's

4. Making And Selling Wine In The '30's

5. Countercurrents

6. Wine In The War Years

7. Postwar Disappointments

8. Back East

9. Changing Weather

10. The Big Change: California

11. A New Dawn (I): The Northern And Central States

12. A New Dawn (II): The South

13. The West Without California

14. California To The Present Day

Notes

Sources And Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-506) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612360480

9781282360488

1282360485

9780520941489

0520941489

9781598757798

1598757792

OCLC:

475950427