Folding Table Napkins or When Champagne Became French

Folding Table Napkins: A New Look at a Traditional Craft

Author: Sharon Dlugosch

Each of the 38 napkin folds provides step-by-step diagrams and photographs. Most folds can be done with paper napkins as well as fabric. Highlights tables beautifully.

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When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity

Author: Kolleen M Guy

Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the nature of French national identity but also over the extent to which diverse and sometimes hostile provincial communities became integrated into the nation. In When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, Kolleen M. Guy offers a new perspective on this debate by looking at one of the central elements in French national culture -- luxury wine -- and the rural communities that profited from its production.

Focusing on the development of the champagne industry between 1820 and 1920, Guy explores the role of private interests in the creation of national culture and in the nation-building process. Drawing on concepts from social and cultural history, she shows how champagne helped fuel the revolution in consumption as social groups searched for new ways to develop cohesion and to establish status. By the end of the nineteenth century, Guy concludes, the champagne-producing provinces in the department of Marne had developed a rhetoric of French identity that promoted its own marketing success as national. This ability to mask local interests as national concerns convinced government officials of the need, at both national and international levels, to protect champagne as a French patrimony.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Consuming the Nation: Champagne Marketing and Bourgeois Rituals, 1789-1914	10
3	Industry Meets Terroir: Champagne Producers in the Marne, 1789-1890	40
4	Resistance and Identity: Cultivation Methods and the Wine Community, 1890-1900	86
5	Boundaries: The Limits of the "True" Champagne, 1900-1910	118
6	Revolution and Stalemate: The Revolt of 1911	158
7	Conclusion: Champagne and Modern France	186
	Appendix	197
	Notes	199
	Bibliographic Essay	231
	Index	239