A Short History of Wine

New York: Ecco, 2000. First US edition, First Printing. Large octavo in white jacket; xxi, 369 pages: maps; 22 cm Fine in fine jacket, now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0066212820

Contents: On the trail of the earliest wines: from the Fertile Crescent to Egypt. Democratic drinking: wine in ancient Greece and Rome. Were the 'dark ages' the dry ages? Europe 500-1000 AD. Wine resurgent: the Middle Ages, 1000-1500. New wines, new skills: the revolution in alcohol, 1500-1700. Wine in new worlds: the Americas, Africa and Australia, 1500-1800. Wine, enlightenment and revolution: Europe in the eighteenth century. Towards an age of promise: uncertainty and prosperity, 1800-1870. A time of troubles: wine and its enemies, 1870-1950. Into the light: a half-century of prosperity, 1950-2000. Notes: Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2000.