1. Regarding the decolonization of its colonies, France preferred the phrase transfert des
compétences. According to historian Keith Panter‑Brick,“A transfert des compétences was …

In the latest wave of globalization, the share of global wine production crossing national
borders has trebled since the mid‐1980s, to more than 40%. Prior to then, wine was …

The surprising story of how Algeria joined and then left the postwar European Economic
Community and what its past inclusion means for extracontinental membership in today's …

Globalization transforms not just the economics of production and exchange in the world, but
also the political economy of public policies. We analyze how wine regulations, and more …

Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In
many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet …

Settler-colonies are places of tremendous inequality and violence. Yet, at the same time,
settler-colonies are also places where elected institutions flourish. What explains the origin …

This chapter examines how the dynamics of the global wine industry have been shaped by
the interrelations between the different stages of the value chain, the sector's leading …

The global diffusion of winegrapes (Vitis vinifera) from western Europe to European colonies
since the fifteenth century is often historicized as a benefit bestowed upon those colonial …

This article considers how local conditions of any one place both impact and are impacted
by the geo-political and economic conditions of the wider world. Using the microcosm of the …

Central to the historiography of the First World War, scholarship on violence has focused on
abstract and impersonal forms of violence between opposing forces or on more personal …