The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux

ISBN-13: 9781032228075 / Twarda / 2023 / 264 str.

Opis

This volume argues that the Irish community in Bordeaux was a product of contingent factors including religious bigotry and war, but mostly because of commercial and educational opportunities that were not available in Ireland itself.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Section I: Emigration, Demography, and Trade. 2. The Context of Bordeaux’s Eighteenth-Century Trade with the British Isles: Its Rise, Evolution, Social, and Commercial Structures 3. The Irish Merchant Colony of Bordeaux in the Eighteenth Century 4. The Irish Merchant Community in 1757 Wartime Bordeaux. Section II: Between Two Worlds? The Relationship of the Bordeaux Irish to Bordeaux and France. 5. Concerning Patrice Mitchell, Reader of Shakespeare, and the Maintenance of English Among the Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux 6. A Jacobite Refugee Family in 18th and Early-19th Century Bordeaux: The Clarkes of Dromantine 7. The Irish College in Bordeaux and Its Connections to the Wider World. Section III: Commodities that Made the Trade: Their Meaning and Production 8. A Transatlantic Commodity: Irish Salt-Beef in the French Atlantic World 9. The Social Meaning of Claret in Eighteenth-Century Ireland 10: Inventing Grand Cru Claret: Irish Wine Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux.

O autorze

Charles C. Ludington, Visiting Associate Professor at New York University, is the author of The Politics of Wine in Britain: A New Cultural History (2013), A Long Shadow: The Story of an Ulster-Irish Family (2017), and co-editor of Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates (2019). From 2015–2017 he was a Marie Curie Senior Researcher at University College Cork and Université de Bordeaux-Michel Montaigne. He is currently working on a book about Irish merchants in Bordeaux and their role in the development of Bordeaux wine and is also general editor of the book series A Cultural History of Wine.