School for American Grape Culture
Title | School for American Grape Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Münch |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 150 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | Grapes |
ISBN |
School for American Grape Culture ... Translated from the German by E. H. Cutter
Title | School for American Grape Culture ... Translated from the German by E. H. Cutter PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich MUENCH (Miscellaneous Writer.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1865 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
School for American Grape Culture
Title | School for American Grape Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Münch |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 139 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Viticulture |
ISBN |
An Elementary Treatise on American Grape Culture and Wine Making
Title | An Elementary Treatise on American Grape Culture and Wine Making PDF eBook |
Author | Peter B. Mead |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 504 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | Grapes |
ISBN |
Foundations of American Grape Culture
Title | Foundations of American Grape Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Volney Munson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Grapes |
ISBN |
An Elementary Treatise on American Grape Culture and Wine making ... Illustrated, etc
Title | An Elementary Treatise on American Grape Culture and Wine making ... Illustrated, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Peter B. MEAD |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 506 |
Release | 1867 |
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ISBN |
Empire of Vines
Title | Empire of Vines PDF eBook |
Author | Erica Hannickel |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2013-10-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812208900 |
The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America. Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California—a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture. Empire of Vines details the ways would-be gentleman farmers, ambitious speculators, horticulturalists, and writers of all kinds deployed the animating myths of American wine culture, including the classical myth of Bacchus, the cult of terroir, and the fantasy of pastoral republicanism. Promoted by figures as varied as horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing, novelist Charles Chesnutt, railroad baron Leland Stanford, and Cincinnati land speculator Nicholas Longworth (known as the father of American wine), these myths naturalized claims to land for grape cultivation and legitimated national expansion. Vineyards were simultaneously lush and controlled, bearing fruit at once culturally refined and naturally robust, laying claim to both earthy authenticity and social pedigree. The history of wine culture thus reveals nineteenth-century Americans' fascination with the relationship between nature and culture.