Book Discussion and Signing

May 5, 5:00 Book Discussion and Signing / Imperial Wine by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre

Join Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum on May 5 for a book discussion and signing with author Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre!

Admission is free. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

A fascinating deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. “Imperial Wine” is a bold, rigorous history of Britain’s surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here, historian Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history and imperial history, presenting provocative new research in an accessible narrative. This is the first book to argue that today’s global wine industry exists as a result of settler colonialism and that imperialism was central, not incidental to viticulture in the British colonies.

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre is Professor of History at Trinity College, Connecticut, and author of “Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire.” In 2019 she was named one of the “Future 50” of wine by the Wine & Spirit Education Trust and the International Wine and Spirit Competition.

Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT 06109
webb-deane-stevens.org

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