Owen White
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Biography
Owen White specializes in the history of modern France and the French colonial empire, with particular research interests in West Africa and Algeria. He grew up in the U.K., receiving his B.A. from the University of Exeter and his doctorate from the University of Oxford. The author of a book about the mixed-race population of French West Africa and articles on a variety of aspects of French colonialism, he has also published two edited volumes: one (with J. P. Daughton) on French missionaries, the other on social organization in modern empires. He recently completed a history of Algerian wine, and is now researching resistance to taxation in colonial empires.
Publications
Books:
The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria (Harvard University Press, 2021)
Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Edited Volumes
(with J.P. Daughton): In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2012)
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I: Social Organisation (Ashgate, 2013)
Articles and Book Chapters
“Great Men in Greater France: Léon Poirier’s L’Appel du silence and Brazza, ou l’épopée du Congo,” French Colonial History, 2019
"Roll Out the Barrel: French and Algerian Ports and the Birth of the Wine Tanker," French Politics, Culture and Society, summer 2017
(with Elizabeth Heath): "The French Empire and the History of Economic Life," French Politics, Culture and Society, summer 2017
