Describes the 8,000 year history of wine, chronicling the changes that have taken place in preparation and taste as the ancient world gave way to the scientific, industrial, social and ideological rev
Wine is some 8,000 years old, but the wines that people buy and drink today are for the most part quite new. Modern wine exists as the product of multiple revolutions—scientific, industrial, social, e
Georg Luk?cs was one of the most controversial Marxist philosophers ofthis century. In this book, however, he appears in another guise: as a literaryhistorian in the tradition of Sainte-Beuve and Beli
Raoul Dufy’s joyful watercolors and Gaston Derys’ witty prose come together in this charming volume to extol the many joys and benefits of wine. First published in French in 1936, the boo
