The French wine industry displaced Muslim subsistence farming in Algeria
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
Categorization
- XREF: The phylloxera-driven wine expansion is a concrete instance of French domestic crises being exported into colonial economic distortion. — connects to: A French vineyard blight launched Algeria’s wine industry and enriched the colons; Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 144; French Muslim presence traces to Algeria’s 1830-1962 colonial conquest (+1 more)
Related
- A French vineyard blight launched Algeria’s wine industry and enriched the colons (similarity 0.94)
- Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.83)
- Cooperation between settlers and Muslims could have preserved a European future in Algeria (similarity 0.80)
- French aid unintentionally accelerated Muslim economic competition against pieds noirs. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- French Muslim presence traces to Algeria’s 1830-1962 colonial conquest
#corroborates(0.60) - Cooperation between settlers and Muslims could have preserved a European future in Algeria
#responds-to(0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1672