The Grapes of Conquest - Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769-1920

The Grapes of Conquest examines the origins of the wine industry at the California missions, as well as its subsequent commercialization in nineteenth-century California under Mexican and American governance.
 

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Vineyard Roots
1. Cultivating Alta California’s First Vineyards, 1769–1820
2. Wine Growing in Mexican California, 1821–1845
3. American Wine Making and Notions of Modernity, 1850–1870
4. Agricultural Citizenship and the Anaheim Wine Colony, 1854–1890
5. Immigration, Whiteness, and the Chinese Question in California’s Vineyards, 1860–1900
6. Wine for Wealth, Health, and Temperance, 1870–1920
Epilogue: Mythologies, Narratives, and Representations of California Wine
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

About the author

Julia Ornelas-Higdon is an associate professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Ornelas-Higdon
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781496239518
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3951-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: At Table
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches