Nation Fermented (eBook)

Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany

Robert Shea Terrell (Autor)

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2023
272 Seiten
OUP Oxford (Verlag)
978-0-19-888184-1 (ISBN)

Infos

How did beer become one of the central commodities associated with the German nation? How did a little-known provincial production standard - the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law - become a pillar of national consumer sentiments? How did the jovial, beer-drinking German become a fixture in the global imagination? While the connection between beer and Germany seems self-evident, A Nation Fermented reveals how it was produced through a strange brew of regional commercial and political pressures. Spanning from the late nineteenth century to the last decades of the twentieth, A Nation Fermented argues that the economic, regulatory, and cultural weight of Bavaria shaped the German nation in profound ways. Drawing on sources from over a dozen archives and repositories, Terrell weaves together subjects ranging from tax law to advertising, public health to European integration, and agriculture to global stereotypes. Offering a history of the Germany that Bavaria made over the twentieth century, A Nation Fermented eschews both sharp temporal divisions and a conventional focus on northern and industrial Germany. In so doing, Terrell offers a fresh take on the importance of provincial influences and the role of commodities and commerce in shaping the nation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-19-888184-3 / 0198881843
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-888184-1 / 9780198881841