The fruits of natural advantage : making the industrial countryside in California /

The once arid valleys and isolated coastal plains of California are today the center of fruit production in the United States. Steven Stoll explains how a class of capitalist farmers made California the nation's leading producer of fruit and created the first industrial countryside in America....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stoll, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Subjects:
Fruit trade > California.
Fruit > California > Marketing.
Horticulture > California.
Agriculture > Economic aspects > California.
Fruits > Commerce > Californie.
Fruits > Californie > Commercialisation.
Horticulture > Californie.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > Californie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Agriculture > Economic aspects.
Fruit > Marketing.
Fruit trade.
Horticulture.
California.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PROLOGUE: IN THE RAIN'S SHADOW
  • I. The Conservation of the Countryside
  • 2. Orchard Capitalists
  • 3. Organize and Advertise
  • 4. A Chemical Shield
  • 5. White Men and Cheap Labor
  • 6. Natural Advantages in the National Interest
  • EPILOGUE: RESTLESS ORCHARD
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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