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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Politicization of Wine
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Front Matter
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Drunkenness, Sobriety, and Civilization?
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Back Matter
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"...a superb contribution, not only to the growing field of food history but also to our deeper appreciation of the evolution of political and cultural life in England and Scotland." - David Hancock, The Journal of Modern History
"Great wine books, like great vintages, are often more hyperbole than reality. In fact, they are both rare. Charles Ludington's 2013 book, The Politics of Wine in Britain: A New Cultural History, is unlike anything that has come before in its depth of research and its particular focus. At the risk of taking the analogy too far, Ludington has written a wine book for the ages." - Kevin D. Goldberg, Journal of Wine Economics
"...this is a very different book on wine that's wholly entertaining and excellently researched, particularly if you're a student of the era or are fascinated by how wine was perceived and manipulated politically in previous centuries." - Paul O' Doherty, Jancis Robinson
"Ludington employs a rich variety of quantitative data, with careful attention to the strengths or weaknesses of official figures as smuggling ebbed and flowed in reaction to policies. A variety of methodologies are creatively employed to produce a book that will fascinate a range of historians, students, and wine-lovers. This volume intrigues, entertains, and illustrates the power of a single commodity to reveal new and significant insights into past societies." - Beverly Lemire, The American Historical Review
"...imaginative, ambitious and well-researched [...] Charles Ludington presents a provocative theory analyzing how changes in alcohol consumption constituted power, influence and legitimacy in politics over two centuries." - David Gutzke, Reviews in History
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Book Title: The Politics of Wine in Britain
Book Subtitle: A New Cultural History
Authors: Charles Ludington
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306226
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23865-7Published: 16 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31576-5Published: 16 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30622-6Published: 12 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 354
Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political History, Social History, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Modern History