A short history of wine
By: Rod Phillips.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Wine and wine making -- History.; Wine -- Social aspects -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-344) and index.
Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2000.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ONE; title: ON THE TRAIL OF THE EARLIEST WINES:; title: From the Fertile Crescent to Egypt; title: TWO; title: DEMOCRATIC DRINKING:; title: Wine in Ancient Greece and Rome 29; title: THREE; title: WERE THE 'DARK AGES' THE DRY AGES?; title: Europe 500-1000 AD 64; title: FOUR; title: WINE RESURGENT:; title: The Middle Ages, 1000-1500 84; title: FIVE; title: NEW WINES, NEW SKILLS:; title: The Revolution in Alcohol, 1500-1700 116; title: SIX; title: WINE IN NEW WORLDS:; title: 152 The Americas, Africa and Australia, 1500-1800; title: SEVEN; title: WINE, ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION:; title: 179 Europe in the Eighteenth Century; title: EIGHT; title: TOWARDS AN AGE OF PROMISE:; title: 218 Uncertainty and Prosperity, 1800-1870; title: NINE; title: A TIME OF TROUBLES:; title: 271 Wine and its Enemies, 1870-1950; title: TEN; title: INTO THE LIGHT:; title: 307 A Half-century of Prosperity, 1950-2000.