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Paul Nugent - Race, Taste and the Grape, Inbunden

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Race, Taste and the Grape

South African Wine from a Global Perspective

Av Paul Nugent

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With the introduction of wine to the Cape Colony, it became associated locally with social extremes: with the material trappings of privilege and taste, on the one side, and the stark realities of human bondage, on the other. By examining the history of Cape wine, Paul Nugent offers a detailed history of how, in South Africa, race has shaped patterns of consumption. The book takes us through the Liquor Act of 1928, which restricted access along racial lines, intervention to address overproduction from the 1960s, and then latterly, in the wake of the fall of the Apartheid regime, deregulation in the 1990s and South Africa's re-entry into global markets. We see how the industry struggled to embrace Black Economic Empowerment, environmental diversity and the consumer market. This book is an essential read for those interested in the history of wine, and how it intersects with both South African and global history.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-03-28
  • Mått: 158 x 235 x 26 mm
  • Vikt: 690 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 374
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009184267
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Paul Nugent is Professor of Comparative African History at the University of Edinburgh. He specializes in borders and wine history, is the Founder/Chair of African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE), a recipient of ERC Advanced Grant, a member of the American Association of Wine Economists, and teaches 'Wine and Global History' in Edinburgh. His most recent book is Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

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'A fascinating and ground-breaking global history of South African wines told through the failures and successes of production and consumption. This book explores the historical role of structures, protagonists and associations through the paradoxical layers of meaning contributing to define race, taste and grape. A must-read!' Marion Demossier, University of Southampton

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