Owen White
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Biography
鈥婳wen White is a historian of imperialism and colonialism with a particular interest in modern France and its empire. He grew up in the U.K., receiving his B.A. from the University of Exeter and his doctorate from the University of Oxford. His most recent book, The Blood of the Colony, about the rise and fall of the Algerian wine industry, was awarded the Eugen Weber Book Prize in Modern French History. His other publications include a book about the mixed-race population of French West Africa and two edited volumes: one (with J. P. Daughton) on French missionaries, the other on social organization in modern empires. He is currently co-editing the Cambridge Companion to the French Empire and researching African responses to colonial taxation.
Professor White teaches a variety of courses in European and world history and the history of empires to undergraduate and graduate students. In 2020 he received the 91原创鈥檚 Excellence in Teaching Award.聽He holds the H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities and currently serves as chairperson of the Department of History.
Publications
Books:
聽(Harvard University Press, 2021)
Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960聽(Oxford University Press, 1999)
Edited Volumes
(with J.P. Daughton):聽In God鈥檚 Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World聽(Oxford University Press, 2012)
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume I: Social Organization聽(Ashgate, 2013)
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淕reat Men in Greater France: L茅on Poirier鈥檚聽L鈥橝ppel du silence听补苍诲听Brazza, ou l鈥櫭﹑op茅e du Congo,鈥澛French Colonial History, 2019
"Roll Out the Barrel: French and Algerian Ports and the Birth of the Wine Tanker,"聽French Politics, Culture and Society, summer 2017
(with Elizabeth Heath): "The French Empire and the History of Economic Life,"聽French Politics, Culture and Society, summer 2017