A short history of wine
Rod Phillips
Publisher: New York : Ecco, c2000.
ISBN: 0066212820
DDC: 641.2209
LCC: TP549
Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-344) and index.
On the trail of the earliest wines: from the Fertile Crescent to
Egypt -- Democratic drinking: wine in ancient Greece and Rome --Were
the 'dark ages' the dry ages? Europe 500-1000 AD -- Wine resurgent:
the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 -- New wines, new skills: the revolution
in alcohol, 1500-1700 -- Wine in new worlds: the Americas, Africa and
Australia, 1500-1800 -- Wine, enlightenment and revolution: Europe in
the eighteenth century --Towards an age of promise: uncertainty and
prosperity, 1800-1870 -- A time of troubles: wine and its enemies,
1870-1950 -- Into the light: a half-century of prosperity, 1950-2000.
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