Ludger Mees

The History of Rioja Wine (eBook, ePUB)

Tradition and Invention

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The History of Rioja Wine offers an informative, chronological and in-depth account of Rioja wine from the mid-19th century to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000625172
• Artikelnr.: 64097906

Autorenporträt

Ludger Mees completed his PhD in History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and was Assistant Professor at the same institution before taking up a lectureship at the University of the Basque Country in 1991. Since 2004 he has been full Professor of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country, and between 2004 and 2009 he was also Vice-Chancellor. He is author, co-author or editor of 17 books and about 120 articles and book chapters in the fields of nationalism, social movements, historiography and agrarian history. His recent publications include Una Historia Social del Vino: Rioja, Navarra, Cataluña 1860-1940 and The Basque Contention: Ethnicity, Politics, Violence.

Inhaltsangabe

1 An intruder at the royal table
2 Everything started with a crisis
3 Taste and status: the invention of the "gourmet" in early bourgeois society
4 A voice in the wilderness
5 The Médoc connection: transnational knowledge transfer or industrial espionage?
6 Conquering the Queen's palate
7 Thwarted: too modern for the time
8 Quantity beats quality: the challenge of the phylloxera plague
9 The comeback: shape and consolidation of a brand
10 New wine, new conflicts: industrial wineries, small winegrowers and the state
11 The globalization trap: challenges and opportunities for Rioja wine in the twenty-first century