Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink that Changed Our Lives

About Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink that Changed Our Lives

Rod Phillips' Wine looks at how this drink has been used to demarcate social groups and genders, how wine has shaped facets of social life as diverse as medicine, religion and military activity, how vineyards have transformed landscapes, and how successive innovations in wine packaging have affected and been affected by commerce and consumption.

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