Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World Regan-Lefebvre Jennifer
A fascinating and approachable 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…
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A fascinating and approachable 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,