Empire of Vines

Empire of Vines

Author: Erica Hannickel

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0812245598

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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.