A French vineyard blight launched Algeria’s wine industry and enriched the colons

Evidence

The creation of the Algerian wine industry, following the phylloxera catastrophe in France, had only added to the agricultural imbalance. Although it had come to account for half of Algeria’s exports to France and had granted considerable economic power to the wine lobby (as personified by Senator Borgeaud), it hardly helped the economic predicament of the Muslims, providing him with but little steady work, and producing a crop which did not nourish him and offended his religion. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 184 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The French wine industry displaced Muslim subsistence farming in Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 184; French colonisation concentrated on coastal plains where colons owned farms, vineyards, and towns

Related

• The French wine industry displaced Muslim subsistence farming in Algeria (similarity 0.94)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The French wine industry displaced Muslim subsistence farming in Algeria #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 184
• French colonisation concentrated on coastal plains where colons owned farms, vineyards, and towns #corroborates (0.55)