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100			_aWhite, Owen _eauthor. _974123
245			_aThe Blood of the Colony: _bWine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2021.
300			_axi, 319 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-305) and index.
505			_tIntroduction: The empire of wine in Algeria
505			_tRoots: antiquity to 1870 -- Phylloxera and the making of the Algerian vineyard: 1870 to 1907
505			_tCompanies and cooperatives, work and wealth: 1907 to 1930
505			_t Algeria and the midi: complementary cultures? -- Labor questions: the 1930s
505			_tWine in the wars: 1940 to 1962
505			_tPulling up roots: since 1962
505			_tEpilogue: The geometry of colonization.
520			_a""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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
650			_aWine industry--Algeria--History. _974124
650			_aWine and wine making _974125
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