The Politics of Wine in Britain

1. Introduction
Charles Ludington

Part I. The Politicization of Wine

2. “A Health to our Distressed King!”
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3. “What’s become of rich Burdeaux claret, who knows?”
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4. “The Cross ran with claret for the general benefit”
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Part II. Claret

5. “The interest of the nation lay against it so visibly”
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6. “A good and most particular taste”
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7. “Firm and erect the Caledonian stood”
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Part III. Port

8. “Port is all I pretend to”
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9. “Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men”
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10. “That other liquor called port”
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Part IV. Drunkenness, Sobriety, and Civilization?

11. “By G–d, he drinks like a man!”
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12. “Happily, inebriety is not the vice of the age”
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13. “Taste is not an immutable, but a mutable thing”
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Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, Social History, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Modern History