Race, Taste and the Grape

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-18425-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 373 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

With the introduction of wine to the Cape Colony, it became associated locally with social extremes: with the material trappings of privilege and taste, on the one side, and the stark realities of human bondage, on the other. By examining the history of Cape wine, Paul Nugent offers a detailed history of how, in South Africa, race has shaped patterns of consumption. The book takes us through the Liquor Act of 1928, which restricted access along racial lines, intervention to address overproduction from the 1960s, and then latterly, in the wake of the fall of the Apartheid regime, deregulation in the 1990s and South Africa's re-entry into global markets. We see how the industry struggled to embrace Black Economic Empowerment, environmental diversity and the consumer market. This book is an essential read for those interested in the history of wine, and how it intersects with both South African and global history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nugent, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. History through a wine glass: empire, slavery and microbes; 1. Contesting the moral high ground: overproduction and the temperance onslaught, 1880–1928; 2. 'South Africa calling the world': KWV regulation and the struggle over quality, 1924–1940; 3. Orchestrating a white wine revolution: merchants, farmers, co-operatives and consumers, c. 1940-1962; 4. De-racializing the liquor laws: temperance, wine and the consumption of race, 1928–1964; 5. Bureaucracy without the state: the KWV system and its discontents, 1962–1986; 6. Selling wine to the many: competition, branding and advertising, 1962–1986; 7. A perfect storm: deregulation and restructuring in the wine industry, 1985–2000; 8. The renaissance of South African wine: innovation, sustainability and empowerment Since the 1990s; 9. Terroirs, brands and competition: the emerging landscape of South African wine; Conclusion. The mutual entanglement of race and the vine.

Über Autor(innen)

Nugent, Paul
Paul Nugent is Professor of Comparative African History at the University of Edinburgh. He specializes in borders and wine history, is the Founder/Chair of African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE), a recipient of ERC Advanced Grant, a member of the American Association of Wine Economists, and teaches 'Wine and Global History' in Edinburgh. His most recent book is Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins (Cambridge University Press, 2019).