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Imperial Wine
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 result of settler colonialism and that imperialism was central, not incidental, to viticulture in the British colonies. Wineries were established almost immediately after the colonization of South Africa...
Newspapers in New Zealand
"Many newspapers in New Zealand have celebrated their anniversaries by publishing special numbers recording their individual histories. "Newspapers in New Zealand" is the first comprehensive history recording every paper published since 1839, when the Father of our Press, Samuel Revans, issued in London his "New Zealand Gazette". The present author had a background of 30 years experience on New Zealand newspapers when he became Parliamentary Librarian and was able to study and develop the remarkable collection of newspapers in the General Assembly Library. The subject was treated bibliographically in a Union Catalogue published in 1938. The present volume tells the story of some 500 newspaper ventures, with special reference to the personalities engaged: some of them dominating figures, like Vogel, Fenwick, Brett, Horton and the Blundells; others quaint and romantic like Revans himself, Joseph Ivess, the doyen of the "rag-planters", Thomas Bracken and William Shaw. The great successes in our journalism were generally unspectacular, but the failures, sadly numerous, have yielded epic stories." -- Inside front cover.
