When Champagne Became French - Wine and the Making of a National Identity

Informationen zum Autor Kolleen M. Guy is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Klappentext Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for English Wine, Best Wine History Book, and Best Book on French Wine Winner, Clicquot Wine Book of the Year Competition When Champagne Became French explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the nature of French national identity but also over the extent to which diverse and sometimes hostile provincial communities became integrated into the nation. Kolleen M. Guy offers a new perspective on this debate by looking at one of the central elements in French national culture -- luxury wine -- and the rural communities that profited from its production. Zusammenfassung This ability to mask local interests as national concerns convinced government officials of the need! at both national and international levels! to protect champagne as a French patrimony. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: AcknowledgmentsOne IntroductionTwo Consuming the Nation: Champagne Marketing and Bourgeois Rituals! 1789-1914Three Industry meets Terroir: Champagne Producers in the MarneFour Resistance and Identity: Cultivation Methods and the Wine Community! 1789-1890Five Boundaries: The Limits of the "True" Champagne! 1900-1910Six Revolution and Stalemate: The Revolt of 1911Seven Conclusion: Champagne and Modern FranceAppendix Notes Bibliographic Essay Index

Product details

• Authors: Kolleen M. Guy, Kolleen M. (Associate Professor Guy
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2007
• EAN: 9780801887475
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8747-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi; The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; Johns Hopkins University Studi
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)