Screen LibraryThe politics of wine in Britain A new cultural history /
A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming th...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Social & cultural history
> c 1800 to c 1900
> c 1800 to c 1900
> c 1800 to c 1900
> United Kingdom, Great Britain.
British & Irish history
> c 1800 to c 1900
> c 1800 to c 1900
> c 1800 to c 1900
> United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230306226 |
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A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming the powerful British state. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230238657. |
| Carrier Form: | 376 p. : 35 b&w, ill., 3 39 charts. |
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9780230238657 9780230306226 : 0230306225 : |
| CLC: | R-05 |
| Contents: | Figures Graphs Tables Preface: A Word or Two on Statistics and Measurements Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THE POLITICIZATION OF WINE 'A Health to our Distressed King!' The Politics of Wine and Drinking in England, 1649-1681 'What's Become of Rich Burdeaux Claret, Who Knows?' Fraud and Popular Taste in Revolutionary England, 1678-1702 'The Cross Ran with Claret for the General Benefit' The Politics of Wine in Scotland, 1680s-1707 PART II: CLARET 'The Interest of the Nation Lay Against it so Visibly' Claret and English National Interest, 1702-1714 'A good and Most Particular Taste': Luxury Claret, Politeness, and Political Power England, c. 1700-1740 'Firm and Erect the Caledonian Stood': Scotland and Claret, 1707-c. 1770 PART III: PORT 'Port is all I pretend to': Port and the English Middle Ranks, 1714-1760s 'Claret is the Liquor for Boys-- Port for Men': How Port Became the 'Englishman's Wine', 1750s-c.1790s 'That other liquor called port': Port and the Creation of British Identity in Scotland, 1770s-1815 PART IV: DRUNKENNESS, SOBRIETY, AND CIVILIZATION? 'By G-d, he drinks like a man!': Manliness, Britishness and the Politics of Inebriety, c. 1780-c.1820 'Happily, inebriety is not the vice of the age': Sobriety, Respectability and Sherry, 1820s-1850s 'Taste is not a mutable, but an immutable thing': British Civilization and the Great Nineteenth-Century Wine Debate Appendix: Wine Duties Endnotes Bibliography. |