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Review: Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley by Peter A. Kopp

Review: Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley by Peter A. Kopp Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. By Peter A. Kopp. (Oakland, University of California Press, 2016. xv þ 306 pp.) This delightful book blurs the line between local and global and will forever change the way you look at a glass of beer. In Hoptopia, Peter A. Kopp argues that Oregon’s current craft beer industry is the ‘‘product of a complex global history that converged in the hop fields of Oregon’s Willamette Valley’’ (p. 4). Kopp follows the tried-and-true model of focus- ing on a particular commodity, in this case hops, to take readers on a journey through an interconnected web of global environmental history grounded in place. The first two chapters begin millions of years ago with the origin of the hop rhizome in Europe and the diaspora of Europeans and their hops to Oregon’s Willamette Valley in the nineteenth century. The next three chap- ters focus on the social and labor history of Willamette Valley hop-pickers. Harvesting hops required a steady supply of physical labor, which, in addition to the white agrarians, included Native American and Chinese pickers. How- ever, I had hoped for more in-depth discussion of these under-studied ethnic groups. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pacific Historical Review University of California Press

Review: Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley by Peter A. Kopp

Hedberg, David-Paul B.
Pacific Historical Review , Volume 87 (3): 2 – Aug 1, 2018
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University of California Press
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© 2018 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association
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0030-8684
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10.1525/phr.2018.87.3.554
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Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. By Peter A. Kopp. (Oakland, University of California Press, 2016. xv þ 306 pp.) This delightful book blurs the line between local and global and will forever change the way you look at a glass of beer. In Hoptopia, Peter A. Kopp argues that Oregon’s current craft beer industry is the ‘‘product of a complex global history that converged in the hop fields of Oregon’s Willamette Valley’’ (p. 4). Kopp follows the tried-and-true model of focus- ing on a particular commodity, in this case hops, to take readers on a journey through an interconnected web of global environmental history grounded in place. The first two chapters begin millions of years ago with the origin of the hop rhizome in Europe and the diaspora of Europeans and their hops to Oregon’s Willamette Valley in the nineteenth century. The next three chap- ters focus on the social and labor history of Willamette Valley hop-pickers. Harvesting hops required a steady supply of physical labor, which, in addition to the white agrarians, included Native American and Chinese pickers. How- ever, I had hoped for more in-depth discussion of these under-studied ethnic groups.

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