Soft soil, black grapes
Subtitle: the birth of Italian winemaking in California
By: Simone Cinotto ; translated from the Italian by Michelle Tarnopolski
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780814717387; 9780814717394; 9780814790311
Subjects: Ethnic relations; Vintners; Viticulture; Italian Americans; Wine and wine making; Economic conditions; Italians; History
Work titles: Terra soffice uva nera
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Success of Piedmontese Winemakers in California and the "Pavesian Myth"; title: Producing Winescapes : Immigrant Labor on California Land; title: The Culture and Economy of Wine in Piedmont and California; title: One Nation : The Importance of Ethnic Cooperation; title: The Spirit and Social Ethics of Ethnic Entrepreneurship; title: The Ethnic Edge : The Economy of Matrimonial Strategies and Family Culture; title: Between Work and Home : Social Capital, Race, and Paternalism; title: Piedmontese Winemakers and the American System; title: Wine and the Alchemy of Race I : The Social and Cultural Economy of Italian   Regionalism; title: Wine and the Alchemy of Race II : Prohibition.