J oseph B ohling . The Sober Revolution

The association between France and wine has a long history, but many of the ideas associated with the traditions of wine, including the system of designation that identifies the specific origins of the grapes used to make wine, only recently developed in response to the efforts of reformers, the process of decolonization, and the pressures of European integration. In The Sober Revolution: Appellation Wine and the Transformation of France, Joseph Bohling traces the specific influences of each of these phenomena within the history of wine in France to reveal how a basic element of French life was profoundly and rapidly reconfigured during the so-called “economic miracle” of the 1950s and 1960s. The desires of reformers were not limited to that time period, but several opportunities contributed to the success of the reconfiguration of the cultural meaning of wine, which Bohling labels “the sober revolution.” The need to change the...

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