Cultivating Imperial Networks: Britain’s Colonial Wine Production at the Cape of Good Hope and South Australia, 1834-1910
Open AccessThis dissertation compares Great Britain’s colonial wine industries at the Cape of Good Hope and South Australia between 1834-1910. Despite the clear differences in the histories of these colonial wine industries, they both underwent a transformation from producing a local economic product to one desired and connected in the global market. This research explores imperial, transnational, and global networks to consider how these colonial wine industries in the nineteenth century were forged through systems of global exchange. Such networks served as a useful apparatus to connect the exchanges in the cultural discourse of wine, the integration of an economic good into the global market, the migration of labor and expertise, and the outbreak of an environmental crisis. The evolution of Britain’s wine industries occurred simultaneously alongside the increased global connectivity of the nineteenth century and illustrates the transformation of a colonial enterprise. This comparative history will provide more than dollars and cents to understanding colonial wine; it will show how commodities have social lives of their own.
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