Listing 1 - 10 of 11 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
AGR Agriculture --- agriculture --- phylloxera
Choose an application
HOR Horticulture --- horticulture --- phylloxera --- viticulture
Choose an application
AGR Agriculture --- agriculture --- phylloxera --- viticulture
Choose an application
Choose an application
Phylloxera --- Phylloxera --- History --- History --- Insect control --- Insect control --- Vineyards --- Vineyards --- grapevines --- grapevines --- France --- France
Choose an application
HOR Horticulture --- American varieties --- Vitis --- horticulture --- parasites --- phylloxera --- plant diseases
Choose an application
Grapes --- Phylloxera. --- Viticulture --- Wine industry --- Diseases and pests --- History --- History --- History
Choose an application
Grapes --- Phylloxera --- Vigne --- Phylloxéra --- Diseases and pests --- History --- Maladies et fléaux --- Histoire
Choose an application
Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine's worst enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale describes the biological and economic disaster that unfolded when a tiny, root-sucking insect invaded the south of France in the 1860's, spread throughout Europe, and journeyed across oceans to Africa, South America, Australia, and California-laying waste to vineyards wherever it landed. He tells how scientists, viticulturalists, researchers, and others came together to save the world's vineyards and, with years of observation and research, developed a strategy of resistance. Among other topics, the book discusses phylloxera as an important case study of how one invasive species can colonize new habitats and examines California's past and present problems with it.
Phylloxera. --- Grapes --- Phylloxeridae --- Grape --- Grape vines --- Grapevines --- Vitis --- Wine grapes --- Vitaceae --- Enocyanin --- Viticulture --- Diseases and pests --- History --- Vigne --- Phylloxéra --- Maladies et fléaux --- Histoire --- biological and economic disaster. --- book about phylloxera. --- developed strategy of resistance. --- eighteen sixties. --- invaded south of france. --- invasive species colonize new habitats. --- journeyed across oceans. --- lays waste to vineyards. --- researchers. --- scientific warfare against phylloxera. --- scientists. --- spread throughout europe. --- viticulturalists. --- wine industry.
Choose an application
The 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 region whose mostly Muslim inhabitants didn’t drink alcohol.Settlers made fortunes while drawing large numbers of Algerians into salaried work for the first time. But the success of Algerian wine resulted in friction with French producers, challenging the traditional view that imperial possessions should complement, not compete with, the metropole. By the middle of the twentieth century, amid the fight for independence, Algerians had come to see the rows of vines as an especially hated symbol of French domination. After the war, Algerians had to decide how far they would go to undo the transformations the colonists had wrought—including the world’s fourth-biggest wine industry. Owen White examines Algeria’s experiment with nationalized wine production in worker-run vineyards, the pressures that resulted in the failure of that experiment, and the eventual uprooting of most of the country’s vines.With a special focus on individual experiences of empire, from the wealthiest Europeans to the poorest laborers in the fields, The Blood of the Colony shows the central role of wine in the economic life of French Algeria and in its settler culture. White makes clear that the industry left a long-term mark on the development of the nation.
Wine industry --- Wine and wine making --- Decolonization --- History. --- Algeria --- France --- History --- Politics and government --- Colonies --- Algeria. --- Algerian wine. --- France. --- French Algeria. --- Muslims and wine. --- colonial economy. --- colonization. --- empire. --- phylloxera. --- settlers. --- vineyard. --- viticulture. --- wine.
Listing 1 - 10 of 11 | << page >> |
Sort by
|