The Politics of Wine in Britain

Introduction Part I: The Politicization of Wine Chapter 1: 'A health to our distressed king!' The Politics of Wine and Drinking in England, 1649-1681 Chapter 2: 'What's Become of Rich Burdeaux Claret, Who Knows?' Fraud and Popular Taste in Revolutionary England, 1678–1702 Chapter 3: 'The Cross Ran with Claret for the General Benefit' The Politics of Wine in Scotland, 1680s-1707 Part II: Claret Chapter 4: 'The Interest of the Nation lay against it so visibly' Claret and English National Interest, 1702-1714 Chapter 5: 'A good and most particular taste': Luxury Claret, Politeness, and Political Power England, c. 1700-1740 Chapter 6: 'Firm and Erect the Caledonian Stood': Scotland and Claret, 1707–c. 1770 Part III: Port Chapter 7: 'Port is all I pretend to': Port and the English Middle Ranks, 1714-1760s Chapter 8: 'Claret is the Liquor for Boys; Port for Men': How Port Became the 'Englishman's Wine', 1750s-c.1790s Chapter 9: 'That other liquor called port': Port and the Creation of BritishIdentity in Scotland, 1770s–1815 Part IV: Drunkenness, Sobriety, and Civilization? Chapter 10: 'By G-d, he drinks like a man!': Manliness, Britishness and the Politics of Inebriety, c. 1780-c.1820 Chapter 11: 'Happily, inebriety is not the vice of the age': Sobriety, Respectability and Sherry, 1820s-1850s Chapter 12: 'Taste is not a mutable, but an immutable thing': British Civilization and the Great Nineteenth-Century Wine Debate