The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities

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.

Author: Charles C. Ludington
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/24/2023
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781032228075

About the Author

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.