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Author:

Smith, Andrew W. M., 1986- author.

Title:

Terror and terroir : the winegrowers of the Languedoc and modern France / Andrew W.M. Smith.

Publisher:

Manchester University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiii, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Comite regional d'action viticole--History.
Terrorist organizations--Languedoc--Languedoc--History--20th century.
Terrorism--Languedoc--Languedoc--History--20th century.
Vintners--History--Languedoc--Languedoc--History--20th century.
Wine and wine making--History--Languedoc--Languedoc--History--20th century.
Wine and wine making--Languedoc--Languedoc--History.
France--Civilization--20th century.
Wine and wine making.
France--Languedoc.
Wein
Weinbau
Frankreich
Languedoc
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 7. A world of wine: European integration and globalisation. 2. Peasants and paroxysms: building a movement (1944 -- 60) -- 3. Molotovs in the Minervois: revolution in the vines (1961 -- 76) -- 4. Crossing the streams: the confluence of Oc and vine -- 5. Montredon to Mitterrand: socialism, syndicalism and the south (1976 -- 84) -- 6. Burial or resurrection? Modernisation and marginalisation (1984 -- 92) -- 7. A world of wine: European integration and globalisation.

Summary:

This work traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comite Regional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation.

Series:

Studies in modern French history

ISBN:

1784994359
9781784994358

OCLC:

(OCoLC)958084334

LCCN:

2017301070

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)