The 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.

• | Author: Owen White
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: January 12, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674248449
• | ISBN-13: 9780674248441