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WINE AND THE VINE

The products of the grape vine are amongst the most diverse of any agricultural crop.

This is not only the result of differences in geology and climate; it also reflects the labour

of countless generations of vine growers and wine makers, each set in their own

distinctive human context. It is this interaction of people and environments, creating

specific cultural identities, that lies at the heart of any understanding of the emergence

and spread of viticulture and wine production.

W ine and the Vine provides an introduction to the historical geography of viticulture

and the wine trade from prehistory to the present. Throughout, the rich symbolic and

cultural significance of wine is related to its evolution as a commercial product. The book

discusses both the numerous symbolic roles assigned to wine and the vine by people of

different religions and also the internationalisation of wine production and marketing.

Particular themes which form a focus for analysis include the role of the Roman Empire

in influencing the spread of viticulture; the importance of political factors in determining

the contours of the medieval wine trade; the use of wines and vines as social symbols

throughout history; the global spread of viticulture under colonialism and imperialism;

and the role of transnational corporations in the modern wine industry.

Unlike previous books, Wine and the Vine sets the development of viticulture and the

wine trade within a particular theoretical framework, considering them as one expression

of changing interactions between social, economic, political and ideological structures.

T im Unwin is a Reader in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.

WINE AND THE VINE

An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine

Trade

Tim Unwin

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 1991

Paperback edition first published in 1996

by Routledge

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