Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xv, 386 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520238869
Inhalt:
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 1870s 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, turning
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-374) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520251670
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Orange Empire : California and the Fruits of Eden
Sprache:
Englisch
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