内容简介
17世纪以来，英国一直是一个雄心勃勃的海洋国家，积极从事各种商品的海外贸易。英国长期以来对葡萄酒的旺盛需求，驱使一代又一代英国人前往海外殖民地从事葡萄酒酿造及出口贸易。除了攫取利益，葡萄酒生产商还自诩肩负着“文明教化”的使命，葡萄酒成为一种控制和征服他们眼中未开化而充满异域风情的土地，普及西方道德观和生活方式的手段。
在英国消费者眼中，“廉价与劣等”在很长一段时间内都是殖民地葡萄酒这种“粗制的魔药”挥之不去的标签，无法与高档的欧洲葡萄酒媲美。在一战后，殖民地葡萄酒被赋予了爱国主义的内涵，开始在英国中产阶级和工薪阶层中流行，并加强各自治领、殖民地与英国的商贸联系。二战期间，帝国葡萄酒更加成为一种能够鼓舞士气、凝聚民族力量的重要饮品。
本书通过梳理英属殖民地葡萄酒酿造史，以及殖民地与英国之间源远流长的贸易关系，讲述英国三百多年的殖民扩张史，展现两次世界大战前后英国与其殖民地在力量对比、地位关系上的变化，以及英国消费市场由精英垄断转向平民化、大众化的历程。
作者简介
[美]詹妮弗·里根·列斐伏尔，美国康涅狄格州三一学院历史系教授，英国皇家历史学会成员，也是《维多利亚帝国时期的世界民族主义》一书的作者。她曾任教于剑桥大学、埃克塞特大学和巴黎美国大学。她的研究方向是英国的帝国主义扩张、民族主义以及殖民主义。
Content introduction
Since the 17th century, Britain has been an ambitious maritime nation, actively engaged in overseas trade in a variety of commodities. Britain has long had a strong demand for wine, driving generations of British people to overseas colonies to engage in wine production and export trade. In addition to profiting, wine producers have a self-proclaimed mission to "civilize," making wine a means to control and conquer what they see as uncivilized and exotic lands and to popularize Western morals and lifestyles.
In the eyes of British consumers, "cheap and inferior" was for a long time the lingering label of colonial wine as a "crude potion", unable to compete with high-end European wines. After the First World War, colonial wines were given patriotic connotations and became popular among the English middle and working classes, strengthening the commercial ties between the Dominions and the colonies and the United Kingdom. During World War II, Imperial wine became an important drink to boost morale and unite the nation.
By combing the history of wine making in the British colonies and the long-standing trade relations between the colonies and the United Kingdom, this book tells the history of more than 300 years of colonial expansion of the United Kingdom, showing the changes in the power comparison and status relationship between the United Kingdom and its colonies before and after the two World Wars, as well as the course of the British consumer market from elite monopoly to civilian and popular.
About the author
Jennifer Regan Lefebvre is a professor of history at Trinity College in Connecticut, a member of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of World Nationalism in the Victorian Empire. She has taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Exeter and the American University of Paris. Her research focuses on British imperialist expansion, nationalism, and colonialism.
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