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.

Rod Phillips is a professor of history at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has written a number of books on European history, and, more recently, on the history of food and drink, with books including A Short History of Wine, Alcohol: A History (named a Book of the Year for 2014 on jancisrobinson.com), and French Wine: A History. General Editor of the forthcoming six-volume A Cultural History of Alcohol, he writes regularly for the wine media and also judges in wine competitions.

• Weight 0.43 kg
• Dimensions 156 x 234 mm