Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden

by Douglas Cazaux Sackman

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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. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together for the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520251679

ISBN13:9780520251670

Release Date:March 2007

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:401 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

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