Terror and Terroir - The Winegrowers of the Languedoc and Modern France

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Smith is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan Klappentext 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. 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: from tradition to terrorism1 Memories of protests past: the Grand Revolt of 19072 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 vine5 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 CRAVIndex

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• Authors: Andrew Smith, Andrew W. M. Smith
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781784994358
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-435-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Studies in Modern French History; Studies in Modern French Histo; Studies in Modern French Histo; Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories