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OverviewThe 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. This brilliant portrayal of California from 1880 to 1930 traces the origins, evolution, and implications of the fruit industry while providing a window through which to view the entire history of California. Stoll shows how California growers assembled chemicals, corporations, and political influence to bring the most perishable products from the most distant state to the great urban markets of North America. But what began as a compromise between a beneficent environment and intensive cultivation ultimately became threatening to the soil and exploitative of the people who worked it. Invoking history, economics, sociology, agriculture, and environmental studies, Stoll traces the often tragic repercussions of fruit farming and shows how central this story is to the development of the industrial countryside in the twentieth century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Steven StollPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9780520211728ISBN 10: 0520211723 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 01 November 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSteven Stoll is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |