Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California—a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture.
Introduction: Grape Culture, National Culture
Chapter 1. Tributaries of the Grape
Chapter 2. Propagating Empire
Chapter 3. Landscapes of Fruit and Profit
Chapter 4. Fear of Hybrid Grapes and Men
Chapter 5. California Wine Meets Its "Destiny"
Chapter 6. The Danger of a Vineyard Romance
Epilogue: An Empire of Wine
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
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Empire of Vines von Erica Hannickel - mit der ISBN: 9780812208900
Agriculture; American History; American Studies, Online-Buchhandlung
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