Author : Erica Hannickel
Release : 2013-11
Genre : Cooking
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 598/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Empire of Vines by : Erica Hannickel
Download or read book Empire of Vines written by Erica Hannickel. This book was released on 2013-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California—a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture.