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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Regan-Lefebvre, Jennifer (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE ORIGINS, C. 1650-1830
1. Writing about Wine
2. Why Britain?
3. Dutch Courage: The First Wine at the Cape
4. First Fleet, First Flight: Creating Australian Vineyards
5. Astonished to See the Fruit: New Zealand's First Grapes
pt. TWO GROWTH, C. 1830-1910
6. Cheap and Wholesome: Cape Producers and British Tariffs
7. Echunga Hock: Colonial Wines of the Nineteenth Century
8. Have You Any Colonial Wine? Australian Producers and British Tariffs
9. Planting and Pruning: Working the Colonial Vineyard
10. Sulphur! Sulphur!! Sulphur!!! Phylloxera and Other Pests
11. Served Chilled: British Consumers in the Victorian Era
12. From Melbourne to Madras: Wine in India, Cyprus, Malta, and Canada
pt. THREE MARKET, C. 1910-1950
13. Plonk! Colonial Wine and the First World War
14. Fortification: The Dominions and the Interwar Period
15. Crude Potions: The British Market for Empire Wines
16. Doodle Bugs Destroyed Our Cellar: Wine in the Second World War
pt. FOUR CONQUEST, C. 1950-2010
17. And a Glass of Wine: Colonial Wines in the Postwar Society
18. Good Fighting Wine: Colonial Wines Battle Back
19. All Bar One: The New World Conquers the British Market.