Terror and Terroir : The Winegrowers of the Languedoc and Modern France.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526101112
- 944.083
- TP553 .S658 2016
Cover -- Terror and terroir -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: from tradition to terrorism -- 1 Memories of protests past: the grande révolte of 1907 -- 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 -- Conclusion: CRAV BOUM! Change and continuity in the role of the CRAV -- Index.
This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional 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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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