LEADER 05156nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910818355203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-1739-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814717394 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276393 035 $a(EBL)1057770 035 $a(OCoLC)967256402$z(OCoLC)817560248$z(OCoLC)818818921$z(OCoLC)968921405 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000831459 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11449146 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000831459 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10872690 035 $a(PQKB)11269173 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323854 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1057770 035 $a(OCoLC)817560248 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19852 035 $a(DE-B1597)547953 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814717394 035 $a(OCoLC)1010992977 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276393 100 $a20120516d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSoft soil, black grapes $ethe birth of Italian winemaking in California /$fSimone Cinotto ; [translated from the Italian by Michelle Tarnopolski] 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 225 0$aNation of newcomers 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4798-3236-7 311 0 $a0-8147-1738-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter One. The Success of Italian Winemakers in California and the ?Pavesian Myth? --$tChapter Two Producing Winescapes --$tChapter Three. The Culture and Economy of Wine in Italy and California --$tChapter Four. One Nation --$tChapter Five. The Spirit and Social Ethics of Ethnic Entrepreneurship --$tChapter Six. The Ethnic Edge --$tChapter Seven. White Labor and Happy Families --$tChapter 8. Italian Winemakers and the American System --$tChapter 9. Wine and the Alchemy of Race I --$tChapter 10. Wine and the Alchemy of Race II --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aWinner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California viticulture one of America?s most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards in the Sonoma hills to the massive industrial wineries of the Central Valley. But how did a small group of nineteenth-century immigrants plant the roots that flourished into a world-class industry? Was there something particularly ?Italian? in their success?In this fresh, fascinating account of the ethnic origins of California wine, Simone Cinotto rewrites a century-old triumphalist story. He demonstrates that these Italian visionaries were not skilled winemakers transplanting an immemorial agricultural tradition, even if California did resemble the rolling Italian countryside of their native Piedmont. Instead, Cinotto argues that it was the wine-makers? access to ?social capital,? or the ethnic and familial ties that bound them to their rich wine-growing heritage, and not financial leverage or direct enological experience, that enabled them to develop such a successful and influential wine business. Focusing on some of the most important names in wine history?particularly Pietro Carlo Rossi, Secondo Guasti, and the Gallos?he chronicles a story driven by ambition and creativity but realized in a complicated tangle of immigrant entrepreneurship, class struggle, racial inequality, and a new world of consumer culture.Skillfully blending regional, social, and immigration history, Soft Soil, Black Grapes takes us on an original journey into the cultural construction of ethnic economies and markets, the social dynamics of American race, and the fully transnational history of American wine. 606 $aWine and wine making$zCalifornia$xHistory 606 $aWine and wine making$xSocial aspects$zCalifornia$xHistory 606 $aViticulture$zCalifornia$xHistory 606 $aItalians$zCalifornia$xHistory 606 $aItalian Americans$zCalifornia$xHistory 606 $aVintners$zCalifornia$xHistory 606 $aVintners$zItaly$zPiedmont$xHistory 606 $aWine and wine making$zItaly$zPiedmont$xHistory 607 $aCalifornia$xEthnic relations$xHistory 607 $aCalifornia$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aWine and wine making$xHistory. 615 0$aWine and wine making$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aViticulture$xHistory. 615 0$aItalians$xHistory. 615 0$aItalian Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aVintners$xHistory. 615 0$aVintners$xHistory. 615 0$aWine and wine making$xHistory. 676 $a641.22 700 $aCinotto$b Simone$0619725 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818355203321 996 $aSoft Soil, Black Grapes$94113101 997 $aUNINA