When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity

by Kolleen M. Guy

Book Overview

Winner of the 2002 Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha ThetaWinner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for English Wine, Best Wine History Book, and Best Book on French WineWinner of the Clicquot Wine Book of the Year Competition

Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080188747X
• ISBN13: 9780801887475
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher