Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World

by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520343689
• ISBN13: 9780520343689
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"