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035 _a(DE-B1597)449759
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082 0 4 _a663.20973
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHannickel, Erica
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEmpire of Vines :
_bWine Culture in America /
_cErica Hannickel.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (312 p.) :
_b40 illus.
336 _atext
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490 0 _aNature and Culture in America
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction. Grape Culture, National Culture --
_t1. Tributaries of the Grape --
_t2. Propagating Empire --
_t3. Landscapes of Fruit and Profit --
_t4. Fear of Hybrid Grapes and Men --
_t5. California Wine Meets Its "Destiny" --
_t6. The Danger of a Vineyard Romance --
_tEpilogue. An Empire of Wine --
_tNOTES --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aGrapes
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aViticulture
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aWine and wine making
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 4 _aAmerican Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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653 _aAgriculture.
653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208900
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