The Blood of the Colony : : Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria /

The Blood of the Colony : : Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria / / Owen White.

The surprising story of the wine industry’s role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire.“We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling of Algeria with Frenchmen,” stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the early 1930s. In the last decades of the nineteenth centu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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White, Owen,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Place Names
  • Note on Metric Conversion
  • Maps
  • Introduction: The Empire of Wine in Algeria
  • 1. Roots
  • 2. Phylloxera and the Making of the Algerian Vineyard
  • 3. Companies and Cooperatives, Work and Wealth
  • 4. Algeria and the Midi
  • 5. Labor Questions
  • 6. Wine in the Wars
  • 7. Pulling Up Roots
  • Epilogue: The Geometry of Colonization
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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