Princeton University Press Simpson, J: Creating Wine

"This is an impressive work of scholarship that brings together a wide range of material about the transformation and globalization of the wine industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wine historians, economic historians, and significant segments of the general public will find much of interest."--John V. C. Nye, author of "War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900" ""Creating Wine" is a boldly pioneering analysis of the complex process by which such forces as increased trade, rising consumer demand, and frequent economic crisis and disease ruptured the older wine economy and opened the way to a global wine industry in the twentieth century. However excellent, earlier studies in this area do not approach the level of concrete synthesis or analytic coherence this book provides. An impressive achievement."--J. Harvey Smith, Northern Illinois University ...