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OverviewDavid Vaught shows how fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians. From the very outset, he explains, these ""horticulturists"" saw themselves as guardians of California's unique culture - raising crops for market while self-consciously building healthy and prosperous communities. Every grower was not, in fact, like every other, Vaught argues, whether one examines their labour systems, recruiting methods, harvest needs, marketing strategies, farm size, or their relationships with their communities, unions and the state. The hard work, foresight and devotion to detail required to nurture an orchard or vineyard made them, they insisted, cultivators of a better society. Over time, however, labour relations, market imperatives and changing political conditions undermined the growers' horticultural ideal. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Vaught (Professor, Texas A&M University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780801871122ISBN 10: 0801871123 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 26 August 2002 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews<p> Cultivating California broadens our understanding of California agriculture and offers scholars an important new view into the culture of agricultural management in the early 1900s.--Brian Black Enterprise and Society <p>This significant work... Offers significant implications for the understanding of both California and American history during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.--Robert M. Senkewicz Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era <p>There is much to admire in Vaught's work. Besides looking at the details of the crops upon which he focuses -- readers will feel as if they are right on the ground in Vaught's accounts -- Vaught illustrates clearly how linkages developed between marketing, labor, and the self-images of the growers.--Mansel Blackford Southern California Quarterly <p> This is an important book because it dares to take on -- with considerable success -- a paradigm that has prevailed since the publication of Carey McWilliams's Factories in the Field in 1939. Cultivating California is a crisply written, fast-paced narrative based upon extraordinary research. It is also a courageous effort to clarify the history of agriculture in California by making room for the high ideals of the turn-of-the-century horticultural generation. -- Kevin Starr, Business History Review Author InformationDavid Vaught is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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