Terror and Terroir

This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: from tradition to terrorism
1 Memories of protests past: the Grand Revolt of 1907
2 Peasants and paroxysms: building a movement (1944-60)
3 Molotovs in the Minervois: revolution in the vines (1961-76)
4 Crossing the streams: the confluence of Oc and vine
5 Montredon to Mitterrand: socialism, syndicalism and the south (1976-84)
6 Burial or resurrection? Modernisation and marginalisation (1984-92)
7 A world of wine: European integration and globalisation
Conclusion: CRAV BOUM! Change and continuity in the role of the CRAV
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andrew Smith is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan

Zusammenfassung

This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation. -- .

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andrew Smith, Andrew W. M. Smith, Andrew W.M. Smith, Smith Andrew W. M.
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781526131898
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3189-8
• Seiten: 296
• Serien: Studies in Modern French History; Studies in Modern French Histo; Studies in Modern French History; Studies in Modern French Histo; Studies in Modern French and Francophone History; Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General