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A Social History of Wine : A social and cultural history of the drink that changed our lives.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Classic Wine LibraryPublisher: Oxford : Infinite Ideas, 2018Copyright date: �2018Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781910902479
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Social History of Wine : A social and cultural history of the drink that changed our livesDDC classification:
  • 641.2209
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Contents:
Book cover -- Half title page -- Author biography -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Wine and wellness -- 2. Wine, women, and men -- 3. Wine and religion -- 4. Wine and landscape -- 5. Wine and words -- 6. Wine and the table -- 7. Wine and war -- 8. Wine and crime -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Wine looks at how wine has been used to demarcate social groups and genders, how wine has shaped facets of social life as diverse as medicine, religion, and military activity, how vineyards have transformed landscapes, and how successive innovations in wine packaging have affected and been affected by commerce and consumption.
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Book cover -- Half title page -- Author biography -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Wine and wellness -- 2. Wine, women, and men -- 3. Wine and religion -- 4. Wine and landscape -- 5. Wine and words -- 6. Wine and the table -- 7. Wine and war -- 8. Wine and crime -- Bibliography -- Index.

Wine looks at how wine has been used to demarcate social groups and genders, how wine has shaped facets of social life as diverse as medicine, religion, and military activity, how vineyards have transformed landscapes, and how successive innovations in wine packaging have affected and been affected by commerce and consumption.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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