"Eastern Wines on Western Tables: Consumption, Trade and Economy in Ancient Italy is an interdisciplinary and multifaceted study concerning wine commerce and the Roman economy during Classical antiquity. Wine was one of the main consumption goods in the Mediterranean during antiquity, and the...

"This book inverts our understanding of French wine by showing how the celebrated regional appellation system was a deliberate capitalist strategy to take advantage of global markets, as opposed to an inherently traditional way of making and classifying wine"