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Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine?Æs New World

University of California Press
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A fascinating deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain's surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here, historian Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history and imperial history, presenting provocative new research in an accessible narrative. This is the first book to argue that today's global wine industry exists as a result of settler colonialism and that imperialism was central, not incidental, to viticulture in the British colonies. Wineries were established almost immediately after the colonization of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand as part of a civilizing mission: tidy vines, heavy with fruit, were symbolic of Britain's subordination of foreign lands. Economically and culturally, nineteenth-century settler winemakers saw the British market as paramount. However, British drinkers were apathetic towards what they pejoratively called "colonial wine." The tables only began to turn after the First World War, when colonial wines were marketed as cheap and patriotic and started to find their niche among middle- and working-class British drinkers. This trend, combined with social and cultural shifts after the Second World War, laid the foundation for the New World revolution in the 1980s, making Britain into a confirmed country of wine-drinkers and a massive market for New World wines. These New World producers may have only received critical acclaim in the late twentieth century, but Imperial Wine shows that they had spent centuries wooing, and indeed manufacturing, a British market for inexpensive colonial wines. This book is sure to satisfy any curious reader who savors the complex stories behind this commodity chain.
  • | Author: Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
  • | Publisher: University Of California Press
  • | Publication Date: Apr 05, 2022
  • | Number of Pages: 342 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 0520343689
  • | ISBN-13: 9780520343689
Author:
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
Publisher:
University Of California Press
Publication Date:
Apr 05, 2022
Number of pages:
342 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
0520343689
ISBN-13:
9780520343689