| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Terra soffice uva nera: Vitivinicoltori piemontesi in California prima e dopo il Proibizionismo (Soft earth black grape: Piedmontese winegrowers in California before and after Prohibition). By Simone Cinotto. (Turin: Otto, 2007. 193 pp. €35.00, ISBN 978-88-95285-06-1.) In Italian.
Italian American immigration historians writing from an East Coast or Midwest perspective have been seriously remiss in telling the complete story of their predecessors out west. Yet, in distant Italy, this deficiency is finally being repaired.	1
Simone Cinotto provides the latest example of fresh immigration scholarship. Focusing on north Italians in California, he has consulted a wide variety of U.S. sources. He places a heavy emphasis on the Italian Swiss Colony in Asti, as well as on the wine empire founded by Ernest and Julio Gallo at Modesto. Cinotto also highlights Secondo Guasti's Italian Vineyard Company in Cucamonga, which advertised itself as the largest vineyard in the world. These three risk takers came from two small Piedmontese villages. Though they found a new, ideal environment, none had any previous vinicultural experience.	. . .

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