Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World

A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry.

Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain’s surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here, historian Jennifer Regan—Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history and imperial history, presenting provocative new research in an accessible narrative. This is the first book to argue that today’s global wine industry exists as a res...