When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity
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Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for English Wine, Best Wine History Book, and Best Book on French WineWinner, Clicquot Wine Book of the Year CompetitionWhen Champagne Became French explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree over the nature of French national identity and over the extent to which diverse and sometimes hostile provincial communities became integrated into the nation. Kolleen M. Guy offers a new perspective on this debate by looking at one of the central elements in French national culture -- luxury wine -- and the rural communities that profited from its production.
Acknowledgments1Introduction12Consuming the Nation: Champagne Marketing and Bourgeois Rituals, 1789-1914103Industry Meets Terroir: Champagne Producers in the Marne, 1789-1890404Resistance and Identity: Cultivation Methods and the Wine Community, 1890-1900865Boundaries: The Limits of the "True" Champagne, 1900-19101186Revolution and Stalemate: The Revolt of 19111587Conclusion: Champagne and Modern France186Appendix197Notes199Bibliographic Essay231Index239
