...Julie McIntyre Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World . By Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre . Oakland : University of California Press , 2022 . 342 pp., $34.95 , hardcover, ISBN 9780520343689 . Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar...

...Anna Katharine Mansfield Crush: The Triumph of California Wine . By John Briscoe . Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2018 . 347 pp., $34.95 , hardback, IBSN 978-1-9438-5949-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 675 leaving our understanding of disasters...

...Victor W. Geraci Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, California wineries entered a new vinti-business (vertical integration of grape farming, wine production, and wine distribution) era based on the needs of a global wine economy by adapting historic survival lessons learned from...

...Herb Jacobson Salud! The Rise of Santa Barbara’s Wine Industry . Victor W. Geraci . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 107 century, stretching from southern New England, down to Philadelphia, and across to the Midwest, sent the South and the non-South...

...David Hanson Grape vs. Grain: A Historical Technological, and Social Comparison of Wine and Beer . Charles Bamforth . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews gtheoeSgobrmrapoeahodfictna-hlaeltebuaordoeskot'fsosittnhraeednesgquutbhajatsereceatnamlasloyatsittiseso...

...Nadine Vivier Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution. Rural Society and Economy in Southern France, c. 1789–1820 . Noelle Plack . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews impact.This continues through a chapter on consumption, which comprises an insightful look...

... ) Vincent Carosso , The California Wine Industry, 1830–1895 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951 ) Charles L. Sullivan , Napa Wine: A History from Mission Days to Present (San Francisco: The Wine Appreciation Guild, 1994 ) James T. Lapsley , Bottled Poetry...

...Marta Macedo Abstract It is easy to understand why regions that produce very fine goods such as port wine tend to conceal technological and scientific inputs and praise the uniqueness of the terroir. This paper suggests that, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, viticulture...

...James Simpson Dying on the Vine: How Phylloxera Transformed Wine . By George Gale . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . 336 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26548-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews Finally, if we can...

...George Gale Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840–1914 . By James Simpson . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2011 . 344 pp., $39.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-691-13603-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews was the only...

...James Lapsley The Makers of American Wine: A Record of Two Hundred Years . By Thomas Pinney . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . 311 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26953-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 2013 Book Reviews pigs. The six...

...Kevin D. Goldberg Abstract “Reaping the Judenfrage ” integrates the vast body of literature on the nineteenth-century “Jewish question” with the long-forgotten “artificial wine question” of the same period. German and Austrian Jews played pivotal roles in the wine trade, often as merchants...

...Zachary Nowak The Sober Revolution: Appellation Wine and the Transformation of France . By Joseph Bohling . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2018 . 306 pp., $47.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-5017-1604-1. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 753 Europe and Asia...

...Victor W. Geraci Empire Of Vines: Wine Culture In America . By Erica Hannickel . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 312 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4559-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Spring than if one...

...Stephen J. Russell Terroir: The Role of Geology, Climate, and Culture in the Making of French Wines . James E. Wilson . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews / 123 Terroir: The Role of Geology, Climate, and Culture in the Making of French Wines. By James E...

...Rick Hendricks Abstract Imported grapes planted in El Paso del Norte around the middle of the seventeenth century grew to be substantial vineyards by the opening decades of the eighteenth century. Some growers had tens of thousands of vines under cultivation and produced wine and brandy...

... impractical vision of colonizer John G. Cullmann. His Germans, with their traditional work ethic and willingness to experiment with such new products as wine and strawberries, did try, sometimes unsuccessfully, to make practical changes in southern farming. Far more families from neighboring Georgia answered...

... of social histories of commodities written for the general public. Mitch Aso National University of Singapore Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840 1914. By James Simpson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 344 pp., $39.50, hardback, ISBN 978-0-691-13603-5. This a very good book...

... Biondi Santi is a native of Tuscany and third-generation producer of Brunello wines. His grandfather iscredited with identifyingand propagating the Brunello clone, Sangiovese Grosso, on the family estate just south of Siena. His father refined and improved the production ofBrunello and kept the vineyard...

... is not alone in its susceptibility to disaster, making this book all the more relevant to the study of disaster in other parts of the United States and around the world. Michael Pasquier Louisiana State University Crush: The Triumph of California Wine. By John Briscoe. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018...