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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnwwx |
תוכן הענינים:
- 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.