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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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sackman, Douglas Cazaux, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Orange industry > California > History.
Orange > Industrie > Californie > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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:
  • An allegory of California
  • 1: Fabricating Eden
  • Manifesting the garden
  • A cornucopia of invention
  • Pulp fiction: the Sunkist campaign
  • 2: Work in the garden
  • The fruits of labor
  • "The finished products of their environment"
  • 3: Reclaiming Eden
  • A jungle of representation: The EPIC campaign versus Sunkist
  • A record of Eden's erosion
  • "A profit cannot be taken from an orange": Steinbeck's case for environmental justice
  • By their fruits ye shall know them.

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