The Politics of Wine in Britain

A New Cultural History

  • Charles Ludington
Book

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
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      Pages 1-12

  3. The Politicization of Wine

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. “A Health to our Distressed King!”
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      Pages 15-30
    3. “What’s become of rich Burdeaux claret, who knows?”
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      Pages 31-45
    4. “The Cross ran with claret for the general benefit”
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      Pages 46-57

  4. Claret

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 59-59
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    2. “The interest of the nation lay against it so visibly”
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      Pages 61-81
    3. “A good and most particular taste”
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      Pages 82-103
    4. “Firm and erect the Caledonian stood”
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      Pages 104-118

  5. Port

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 119-119
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    2. “Port is all I pretend to”
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      Pages 121-143
    3. “Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men”
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      Pages 144-162
    4. “That other liquor called port”
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      Pages 163-179

  6. Drunkenness, Sobriety, and Civilization?

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 181-181
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    2. “By G–d, he drinks like a man!”
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      Pages 183-220
    3. “Happily, inebriety is not the vice of the age”
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      Pages 221-237
    4. “Taste is not an immutable, but a mutable thing”
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      Pages 238-256
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 257-354
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

cultural history England revolution Scotland

Authors and affiliations

  • Charles Ludington
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of HistoryNorth Carolina State UniversityUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306226
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-31576-5
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-30622-6
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