| The City of Vines: A History of Wine in Los Angeles Contributor(s): Pinney, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1597143987 ISBN-13: 9781597143981 Publisher: Heyday Books OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness - Cooking | Beverages - Alcoholic - Wine |
| Dewey: 338.476 |
| LCCN: 2016047274 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California - Topical - Wine Country - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1950's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award The latest title from the author of A History of Wine in America recounts the beginnings of California's world renowned wine trade--a story set not in Napa but in the isolated pueblo now called Los Angeles. With incisive analysis and a touch of dry humor, The City of Vines chronicles winemaking in Los Angeles from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century through its decline in the 1950s. Thomas Pinney returns the megalopolis to the prickly pear-studded lands upon which Mission grapes grew for the production of claret, port, sherry, angelica, and hock. From these rural beginnings Pinney reconstructs the entire course of winemaking in a sweeping narrative, punctuated by accounts of particular enterprises including Anaheim's foundation as a German winemaking settlement and the undertakings of vintners scrambling for market dominance. Yet Pinney also shows Los Angeles's wine industry to be beholden to the forces that shaped all California under the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States: colonial expansion dependent on labor of indigenous peoples; the Gold Rush population boom; transcontinental railroads; rapid urbanization; and Prohibition. This previously untold story uncovers an era when California wine meant Los Angeles wine, and reveals the lasting ways in which the wine industry shaped the nascent metropolis. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pinney, Thomas: - Thomas Pinney is emeritus professor of English at Pomona College. He has published scholarly work on George Eliot, Lord Macaulay, and Rudyard Kipling, and several books on American wines including the two-volume A History of Wine in America (UC Press). The second volume of this definitive wine history won the 2006 International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for best book on wine, beer, or spirits. |