The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria

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The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French AlgeriaThe surprising story of the wine industry's role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. "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

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