Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France Creativity and an American Library Association

and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2000) and Best Book for Reluctant Readers (2000)

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professor of modern Middle East history at the Williams College of Massachusetts and a resident lecturer at the University of Iceland

"[A] word-of-mouth smash hit

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Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France Creativity and an American Library AssociationThis is an innovative study of how race and empire transformed French republican citizenship in the early Third Republic. Elizabeth Heath integrates the histories of the wine producing department of Aude and the sugar producing colony of Guadeloupe to reveal the ways in which empire was integral to the Third Republic's ability to stabilize a republican regime that began to unravel in an age of economic globalization. She shows how global economic