A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming the powerful British state. CHARLES LUDINGTON Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University, USA, and UNC-Chapel Hill. His primary historical interests are in early modern British and Irish political and cultural history, European intellectual history, andthe history of food and drink. INDICE: Acknowledgements - A Pox on those Fools, who exclaim against Wine:The Politicization of Wine and Drinking in England, 1649-1681 - What's Becomeof Rich Burdeaux Claret, Who Knows?: Fraud and Popular Taste in the First Ageof Party, 1679-1702 - The Cross Ran with Claret for the General Benefit: The Politicization of Claret in Scotland, 1680s-1707 - The Interest of the Nation lay against it so visibly: Claret, Port and English National Interest, 1702-1714 - A good and most particular taste: Luxury Claret, Politeness and PoliticalPower in Early-Eighteenth-Century England - To the King o'er the Water: Scotland and Claret, 1707bc. 1770 - Port is all I pretend to: The Taste for Port among the English Middle Ranks, 1714-1760s - Claret is the Liquor for Boys; Portfor Men: How Port Became 'the Englishman's Wine', 1750s-c.1790s - A great proportion of the wine consumed in this country is brought from Portugal: Port and the Creation of Anglo- British Identity in Scotland, 1770sb1815 - By G-d, hedrinks like a man!: Manliness, Britishness and the Politics of Inebriety, c. 1780-1820 - We may be said to be no longer the same people: Sobriety, Respectability and Sherry - Taste is not a mutable, but an immutable thing: Liberalism, Civilization and the Great Nineteenth-Century Wine Debate - Notes - Bibliography -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23865-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés