Orange empire : California and the fruits of Eden /

"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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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Sackman, Douglas Cazaux, 1968-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnwwx
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.