Orange Empire : California and the Fruits of Eden.

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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 1870s onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sackman, Douglas Cazaux
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Temas:
Orange industry > California > History.
Orange > Industrie > Californie > Histoire.
Ecology
Economic history
Orange industry
California > History.
California > Economic conditions.
California > Environmental conditions.
Californie > Histoire.
Californie > Conditions économiques.
Californie > Conditions environnementales.
California
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue. An Allegory Of California
  • Introduction
  • 1. Manifesting The Garden
  • 2. A Cornucopia Of Invention
  • 3. Pulp Fiction: The Sunkist Campaign
  • Introduction
  • 4. The Fruits Of Labor
  • 5. "The Finished Products Of Their Environment"
  • 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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