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The Research Project and the Relevance
of the Topic
Te project of a book collecting papers about diferent European wine
regions was developed during Spring 2017 by Paolo Tedeschi and
Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro, scholars in economic history and members of
the informal group of research about the Italian Oeno-History.
Considering that, from food and agricultural history points of view,
the wine sector is at the core of the present scientifc debate and the
social, economic and legislative relevance of the products of the terroir
Terroir, Institutions and Improvements
in European Wine History: An Introduction
Silvia A. Conca Messina, Stéphane Le Bras,
Paolo Tedeschi and Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro
© Te Author(s) 2019
S. A. Conca Messina et al. (eds.), A History of Wine in Europe,
19th to 20th Centuries, Volume I, Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27772-7_1
S. A. Conca Messina (*)
Department of Historical Studies, University of Milan ‘La Statale’,
Milan, Italy
e-mail: silvia.conca@unimi.it
S. Le Bras
CHEC, University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
e-mail: stephane.lebras@uca.fr