The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria by White, Owen
The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria by White, Owen

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

The surprising story of the wine industry's role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall...
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The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria by White, Owen

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

$113.83
The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria by White, Owen

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

$113.83
Author: Owen White
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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 century, Europeans had displaced Algerians from the colony's best agricultural land and planted grapevines. Soon enough, wine was the primary export of a region whose mostly Muslim inhabitants didn't drink alcohol.

Settlers made fortunes while drawing large numbers of Algerians into salaried work for the first time. But the success of Algerian wine resulted in friction with French producers, challenging the traditional view that imperial possessions should complement, not compete with, the metropole. By the middle of the twentieth century, amid the fight for independence, Algerians had come to see the rows of vines as an especially hated symbol of French domination. After the war, Algerians had to decide how far they would go to undo the transformations the colonists had wrought--including the world's fourth-biggest wine industry. Owen White examines Algeria's experiment with nationalized wine production in worker-run vineyards, the pressures that resulted in the failure of that experiment, and the eventual uprooting of most of the country's vines.

With a special focus on individual experiences of empire, from the wealthiest Europeans to the poorest laborers in the fields, The Blood of the Colony shows the central role of wine in the economic life of French Algeria and in its settler culture. White makes clear that the industry left a long-term mark on the development of the nation.

Author: Owen White
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01/12/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780674248441

About the Author
White, Owen: - Owen White is Professor of History at the University of Delaware. He is author of Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 and coeditor of In God's Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World.
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