""A tour de force. This lively book explores the centrality of wine to Algeria's economy and society in a revealing, long-neglected story about the crown jewel in France's colonial empire."
-ERIC JENNINGS, author of Escape from Vichy
"This first major work on wine in Algeria seamlessly weaves together the histories of political economy, environment, race, and colonial governance. An erudite and compelling book."
-MARY DEWHURST LEWIS, author of Divided Rule
"Beautifully researched and lucidly written. White tacks gracefully between the local and the global in a commodity history that is also a concise account of French colonization in North Africa."
-JENNIFER SESSIONS, author of By Sword and Plow
"A sweeping view of French colonialism in Algeria grounded in the everyday experiences of those who made and unmade the Algerian wine industry. Innovative and impressive."
-ELIZABETH HEATH, author of Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France
"A superb, elegantly written history of colonial Algeria's immense wine industry and its complex relationship to mainland France. A tremendous achieverment."
-HERRICK CHAPMAN, author of France's Long Reconstruction
"A wonderfully insightful book on how wine production in Algeria became integral to France's colonization project. From start to finish, the detail is brilliant, the conclusions powerful."
-MARTIN THOMAS, author of Fight or Flight
"Through the prism of a single commodity, White offers new insights into the economics and cultural significance of French settler colonialism. An elegant and illuminating study."
-DAVID TODD, author of A Velvet Empire" (4ème couv).

Numéro d'inventaire : 87733

Niveau d'autorisation : Public

Tables des Matières : Note on Place Names ix
Note on Metric Conversion xi

Introduction • The Empire of Wine in Algeria 1
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 10
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 38
Phylloxera and the "Seduction" of the Colonist • The Insurgent: Phylloxera in
Algeria 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 80
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) 112
Competition versus Complementarity • Plantation Fever • Fixing Limits Backfire and Backlash • Allies and Antagonists • The Tide Crests

5 Labor Questions • The 1930s (II) 142
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 170
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 210
Self-Management • Breaking Dependence? • Wine Repatriated Corsica, a New Algeria? • Algerian Wine at the Margins

Epilogue < The Geometry of Colonization 231
Abbreviations 237
Notes 239
Acknowledgments 307
Index 309

Langue : Anglais

Description matérielle : 320 p.: ill. noir; avec couv. ill. en coul.; 24 cm.

Origine : Don

Notes : Table des matières ; Bibliogr. ; Notes

Localisation : Silo 4

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N°	Cote	Code barre	Commentaire
1	A00979		[disponible]