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The wine revolution in France : the twentieth century

Title: The wine revolution in France : the twentieth century / Leo A. Loubère.
Author: Loubère, Leo A.
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1990.

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xiv, 288 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Publisher description -- During the past eight decades French vineyards, wineries, and wine marketing efforts have undergone such profound changes--from technological, scientific, economic, and commercial standpoints--that the transformation is revolutionary for an industry dating back thousands of years. Here Leo Loubre examines how the modernization of Western society has brought about new conditions in well-established markets, making the introduction of novel techniques and processes a matter of survival for winegrowers. Not only does Loubre explain how altered environmental conditions have enabled pioneering enologists to create styles of wine more suited to contemporary tastes and living arrangements, but he also discusses the social impact of the wine revolution on the employees in the industry. The third generation of this new viticultural regime has encountered working and living conditions drastically different from those of its predecessors, while witnessing the near disappearance of the working class and the decline of small and medium growers of ordinary wines.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- About this book and the metric system -- About the wine revolution -- Chapter 1. General trends and conditions since 1914 -- Wine in World War I -- The interwar : prosperity -- The interwar : depression -- Wine in World War II -- Wine since 1945 -- Chapter 2. The viticultural revolution -- Characteristics of viticultural change -- Struggle against natural disasters -- Struggle against pests -- Changing technology in the vineyard -- The cost of innovation -- Yields, a modern miracle -- Property : the small is not the least -- Chapter 3. Viniculture : the marriage of pragmatism and theory -- The birth of enology -- Centers of advanced viniculture -- Evolution of technology -- Fake wine -- Chapter 4. The attack on fraud : classification and appellation -- Struggle for the appellation of origin -- From laissez faire to dirigisme -- Chapter 5. Cooperatives among individualists -- Origins of cooperative wineries -- Organization -- Postwar expansion -- Chapter 6. The economics of wine -- Crisis and recovery -- Determinants of price -- Consumption in France -- Chapter 7. The commerce of wine -- Domestic trade and advertising -- Foreign trade : interwar -- Foreign trade : postwar -- Problems of worldwide consumption -- Chapter 8. Conditions of life : propertied growers -- Ways of life during the interwar -- Postwar demographic problems -- Festivities -- Violence in the vineyards -- Women's work -- Chapter 9. Conditions of life : laborers -- Structure and conditions of the labor force -- Decline of native laborers -- Strikes -- Female workers -- Conclusion.

ISBN

0691055920
9780691055923

LCCN

89070154

OCLC

ocm20799003
20799003
SCSB-1890819

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Princeton University Library