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Author Pinney, Thomas.

Title A history of wine in America : from prohibition to the present / Thomas Pinney.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 532 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-506) and index.
Contents List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Forms of Life in a Dry World; 2. The Rules Change; 3. The Dismal '30s; 4. Making and Selling Wine in the '30s; 5. Countercurrents; 6. Wine in the War Years; 7. Postwar Disappointments; 8. Back East; 9. Changing Weather; 10. The Big Change: California; 11. A New Dawn (I): The Northern and Central States; 12. A New Dawn (II): The South; 13. The West without California; 14. California to the Present Day; Notes; Sources and Works Cited; Index.
Summary Wine-making in the United States as it was carried out under Prohibition and then as it developed and spread to all fifty states after the repeal of Prohibition is described in this account of the American vintner's art as it has evolved into a successful enterprise.
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Subject Wine and wine making -- United States -- History.
Wine and wine making.
United States.
History.
Wine industry -- United States -- History.
Wine industry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Pinney, Thomas. History of wine in America. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 0520241762 (DLC) 2004017999 (OCoLC)56319507
ISBN 9780520941489 (electronic book)
0520941489 (electronic book)
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