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""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).