A History of Wine in America

  PREFACE

 collapse sectionPART 1  FROM THE DISCOVERY TO THE REVOLUTION
 collapse section1  The Beginnings, 1000-1700
 Early Explorers and Native Grapes
 The Promise of Virginia Wine
 The Other Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
 2  The Georgia Experiment
 collapse section3  Virginia and the South in the Eighteenth Century
 South Carolina; Florida; North Carolina
 Domestic Winemaking in Virginia
 Public Interest and Public Support
 collapse section4  Other Colonies and Communities Before the Revolution
 Maryland and Pennsylvania: the Discovery of the Alexander Grape
 The Royal Society of Arts Competition
 The Contribution of Continental Emigrants: the Huguenots and St. Pierre
 Other Huguenot Communities
 The Contribution of Continental Emigrants: the Germans

 collapse sectionPART 2  THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDUSTRY
 collapse section5  From the Revolution to the Beginnings of a Native Industry
 Peter Legaux and the Pennsylvania Vine Company
 Other Pioneers in the Early Republic
 Dufour and the Beginning of Commercial Production
 The Spirit of Jefferson and Early American Winegrowing
 collapse section6  The Early Republic, Continued
 George Rapp and New Harmony
 Bonapartists in the Mississippi Territory
 collapse sectionJohn Adlum, "Father of American Viticulture"
 Fourth of July Parties
 The South in the Early Republic
 collapse section7  The Spread of Commercial Winegrowing
 Nicholas Longworth and the Cincinnati Region
 The Missouri Germans
 The Development of Winegrowing in New York State
 collapse section8  Eastern Viticulture Comes of Age
 The Rise of Hybrid Grapes
 The Creation of Institutional Supports for Winegrowing
 The Grape Boom in the Old South

 collapse sectionPART 3  THE DEVELOPMENT OF CALIFORNIA
 collapse section9  The Southwest and California
 Early Winegrowing in New Mexico
 Winegrowing in the California Mission Period
 The Beginning of Commercial Winegrowing in Southern California
 The Beginnings in Northern California
 10  The Haraszthy Legend
 collapse section11  The Fate of Southern California
 The Rise and Fall of Anaheim
 The San Gabriel Valley
 collapse section12  California to the End of the Century
 Changing Patterns and the Development of New Regions
 Large-Scale Investment in California Winegrowing
 Italian Swiss Colony and the Italian Contribution
 Communal Organizations and Winegrowing
 Winegrowing in Sonoma County: a Modal of the Whole
 collapse section13  California: Growing Pains and Growing Up
 Organizations and State Support: the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners
 The Board's Rival: the University of California
 Marketing Problems in the Late Nineteenth Century: The California Wine Association
 The Growth of Related Trades and a Literature of Wine
 Climax and Collapse

 collapse sectionPART 4  THE INDUSTRY ACROSS THE NATION
 collapse section14  The Eastern United States: from the Civil War To Prohibition
 Eastern Wine and Eastern Grape Juice
 Missouri, Kansas, and the Midwest
 collapse section15  The Southwest; the South; Other States
 Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma
 The South
 Other States
 16  The End of the Beginning:National Prohibition

  Appendix 1  Fox Grapes and Foxiness
  Appendix 2  The Language of Wine in English
 collapse sectionNotes
 1 The Beginnings, 1000-1700
 2 The Georgia Experiment
 3 Virginia and the South in the Eighteenth Century
 4 Other Colonies and Communities Before the Revolution
 5 From the Revolution to the Beginnings of a Native Industry
 6 The Early Republic, Continued
 7 The Spread of Commercial Winegrowing
 8 Eastern Viticulture Comes of Age
 9 The Southwest and California
 10 The Haraszthy Legend
 11 The Fate of Southern California
 12 California to the End of the Century
 13 California: Growing Pains and Growing Up
 14 The Eastern United States: from the Civil War To Prohibition
 15 The Southwest; the South; Other States
 16 The End of the Beginning:National Prohibition
 Appendix 1 Fox Grapes and Foxiness
 Appendix 2 The Language of Wine in English
 collapse sectionWorks Cited
 Manuscripts
 Newspapers and Specialized Periodicals
 Other Printed Works
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