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Phillips, Roderick,

A short history of wine / Rod Phillips. - xxi, 370 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 -- Historical Measures of Wine. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. App.

ISBN: 0066212820 9780066212821 0060937378 9780060937379

LCCN: 2001023643

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Wine and wine making--History
Wine--Social aspects--History

LC Class. No.: TP549 / .P48 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 641.2209