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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Place Names -- Note on Metric Conversion -- Introduction: The Empire of Wine in Algeria -- Rise and Fall -- People of the Vine -- Wine and the Economic Life of Algeria -- When Is a Colony Not a Colony? -- 1. Roots: Antiquity to 1870 -- The Wine Frontier -- Complementary Colonization -- Settlement and the Wine Question -- Searching for the Wealth of a Colony -- 2. Phylloxera and the Making of the Algerian Vineyard: 1870 to 1907 -- Phylloxera and the "Seduction" of the Colonist -- The Insurgent: Phylloxera in Algeria |
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Masters of the Land? -- The Perils of the Market and the Honor of Algerian Wine -- Getting Caught Up with Capital -- 3. Companies and Cooperatives, Work and Wealth: 1907 to 1930 -- Phylloxera, War, and Reconstitution -- War and the Horizon of Capital -- The Cooperative Movement -- Working in the Vines -- Working for the Vines -- Wealth and Influence -- 4. Algeria and the Midi: The 1930s (I) -- Competition versus Complementarity -- Plantation Fever -- Fixing Limits -- Backfire and Backlash -- Allies and Antagonists -- The Tide Crests -- 5. Labor Questions: The 1930s (II) |
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Toward "Welfare Viticulture"? -- "Machines of Famine": The First Wine Tankers -- Politicizing the Agricultural Worker -- Violence in the Vines -- Mouths to Feed -- 6. Wine in the Wars: 1940 to 1962 -- Vichy Algeria -- "Liberated" Algeria -- The Other Entre-Deux-Guerres -- The Logic of Descartes -- The Front Lines -- The Hollowing -- The Future and the End -- 7. Pulling Up Roots: Since 1962 -- Self-Management -- Breaking Dependence? -- Wine Repatriated -- Corsica, a New Algeria? -- Algerian Wine at the Margins -- Epilogue: The Geometry of Colonization -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
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 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Decolonization -- Algeria
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Wine and wine making -- Algeria -- History
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Wine industry -- Algeria -- History
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HISTORY / Africa / North.
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Decolonization
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Wine and wine making
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Wine industry
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Algeria
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674249479 |
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067424947X |
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