Everyone, I'm looking for modern scholarship documenting the production and consumption of wine, imported and domestic, in America in the nineteenth century. In the late 1830s the American Temperance Union published customs statistics suggesting wine consumption more than doubled between 1826 and 1836. The literature of the period supports this anecdotally. I wonder if anyone on the list can direct me to twentieth-century studies of American wine consumption for this period. Regional studies would be especially helpful. Thank you, Jon ---------------------- Jon Stephen Miller Assistant Editor Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Department of English The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1492 [log in to unmask] 1.319.335.0592