The blood of the colony : wine and the rise and fall of French Algeria /

""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 an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Owen (Associate professor of History) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Temas:
1830-1962
Wine industry > Algeria > History.
Wine and wine making > Algeria > History.
Decolonization > Algeria.
Vin > Industrie > Algérie > Histoire.
Décolonisation > Algérie.
HISTORY > Africa > North.
Decolonization.
French colonies.
Politics and government.
Wine and wine making.
Wine industry.
Algeria > History > 1830-1962.
Algeria > Politics and government > 1830-1962.
France > Colonies > Africa.
Algérie > Politique et gouvernement > 1830-1962.
Africa.
Algeria.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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.

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