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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roderick Phillips |
ISBN: | 0060937378 9780060937379 0066212820 9780066212821 |
OCLC Number: | 51267749 |
Notes: | Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2000. |
Description: | xxi, 369 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
Contents: | On the trail of the earliest wines: from the Fertile Crescent to Egypt -- Democratic drinking: wine in ancient Greece and Rome -- Were the 'dark ages' the dry ages? Europe 500-1000 AD -- Wine resurgent: the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 -- New wines, new skills: the revolution in alcohol, 1500-1700 -- Wine in new worlds: the Americas, Africa and Australia, 1500-1800 -- Wine, enlightenment and revolution: Europe in the eighteenth century -- Towards an age of promise: uncertainty and prosperity, 1800-1870 -- A time of troubles: wine and its enemies, 1870-1950 -- Into the light: a half-century of prosperity, 1950-2000. |
Responsibility: | Rod Phillips. |
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