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A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany
By (author) Robert Shea Terrell
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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.
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Publisher | Oxford University Press
Published date | 21 Dec 2023
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 240
Dimensions | 242 x 160 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 520g
ISBN | 978-0-1988-8183-4
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BISAC | history / europe / germany
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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
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