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Autore: | Sackman Doug |
Titolo: | Orange Empire [[electronic resource] ] : California and the Fruits of Eden |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (404 p.) |
Disciplina: | 979.405 |
979.4053 | |
Soggetto topico: | California - Economic conditions |
California - History | |
Orange industry - California - History | |
Orange industry | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 transformed the natural and social landscape of California, |
Titolo autorizzato: | Orange Empire |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463168303321 |
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