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snurri ([personal profile] snurri) wrote2008-04-25 01:55 pm
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Hivemind Request

I am unexpectedly in need of research materials relating to life on a vineyard between, say, 1650-1850. My own searches have come up with little in general, and nothing specific to the subject. (I HAZ MLS BUT I R KNOT VERA SMRT.) Any suggestions? Even a chapter would help.

Thanks in advance.

[identity profile] veejane.livejournal.com 2008-04-25 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have specific titles to recommend, but one thing you could do is look up the history of a specific place famous for its history of vineyards. The first place that came to my mind was Martha's Vineyard, but I'm not sure it actually had a profitable wine-making business in its entire history (although if it did, it would have been its earlier, pre-tourist years). And then, from a general book, I would plunder the Works Cited or Bibliography like a mofo.

[identity profile] justinhowe.livejournal.com 2008-04-25 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Does country matter?

[identity profile] jonhansen.livejournal.com 2008-04-26 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. Best bets I have found:

* Wine: the 8,000-year-old story of the wine trade / Thomas Pellechia
* Burgundy to Champagne : the wine trade in early modern France / Thomas Brennan
* Phylloxera : how wine was saved for the world / Christopher Campbell
* Vintage : the story of wine / Hugh Johnson
* A short history of wine / Roderick Phillips
* Wine from Neolithic times to the 21st century / Stefan K Estreicher

Also, my library's got access to Early English Books Online, and there are a few books from the late 1600s in there. Think they're more about how to cut the vines & whatnot, but they might be of interest.

[identity profile] justinhowe.livejournal.com 2008-04-27 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
P Gutenberg page for title search for "wine" here.