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UNINA9910463168303321 |
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Autore |
Sackman Doug |
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Titolo |
Orange Empire [[electronic resource] ] : California and the Fruits of Eden |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (404 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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California - Economic conditions |
California - History |
Orange industry - California - History |
Orange industry |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Prologue / An Allegory of California; PART ONE: FABRICATING EDEN; Introduction; 1 / Manifesting the Garden; 2 / A Cornucopia of Invention; 3 / Pulp Fiction: The Sunkist Campaign; PART TWO: WORK IN THE GARDEN; Introduction; 4 / The Fruits of Labor; 5 / "The Finished Products of Their Environment"; PART THREE: RECLAIMING EDEN; Introduction; 6 / A Jungle of Representation: The EPIC Campaign versus Sunkist; 7 / A Record of Eden's Erosion; 8 / "A Profit Cannot Be Taken from an Orange": Steinbeck's Case for Environmental Justice |
Epilogue / By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export-the orange. From the 1870's onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together for the first time the full story of the orange industry-how growers, scientists, and workers |
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transformed the natural and social landscape of California, |
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UNINA9910481350603321 |
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Autore |
Cicero Marcus Tullius |
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Commentarij explicationum in reliquos quatuor M. T. Ciceronis Tusculanarum quæstionum libros ... Ioachimo Camerario Pabergense autore. |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Online resource ([24], 89, [5] p. [Ma 120 p.]) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. |
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