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