Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France

Elizabeth Heath is an Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, City University of New York, having taught previously at Florida International University. She received her PhD from the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a former Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago and the holder of a number of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Newberry Library, the Getty Research Institute, and the Wolfsonian Museum. Her research focuses on modern France and the French empire, and she is particularly interested in the way that colonialism shaped the fundamental features of modern French life, whether citizenship and welfare, or consumer habits, hygiene, and economic tools. She is currently at work on a new book-length project on French colonial commodities entitled Everyday Colonialism: Commodities of Empire and the Making of Modern France.

• Introduction: of wine and sugar; Part I: 1. Wine, sugar, and the new global economy; 2. Defining Republican citizenship on the peripheries; Part II: 3. Propertied elites and a new liberal citizenship; 4. Socialism and the rise of worker politics; 5. Small holders and the promise of rural democracy; Part III: 6. Union member and citizen; 7. Defining French citizenship in a global age; Conclusion: globalization, empire, and the making of modern France; Bibliography; Index.

'The story Heath tells about an earlier moment of globalization is an important lesson for our times, when arguments about agricultural standards are simultaneously about quality and about supply, competitiveness and price, not to mention our way of life … Read this book. Its story may be about France, but is lesson is universal.' Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Reviews and Critical Commentary (councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom)