Blood of the Colony - Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria

Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world's largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact of the wine industry on what was France's most important possession-and on the Algerians for whom grapevines became a hated symbol of colonial exploitation.

About the author

Owen White is Professor of History at the University of Delaware. He is author of Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895–1960 and coeditor of In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World.

Summary

Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world’s largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact of the wine industry on what was France’s most important possession—and on the Algerians for whom grapevines became a hated symbol of colonial exploitation.

Product details

• Authors: Owen White, White Owen
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780674248441
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24844-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / World, General & world history, African History, General and world history