TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stoll,Steven
TI  - The fruits of natural advantage: making the industrial countryside in California 
SN  - 9780520920200
AV  - HD9247.C2 S73 1998eb
U1  - 338.1/74/09794 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Fruit trade
KW  - California
KW  - Fruit
KW  - Marketing
KW  - Horticulture
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Fruits
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Californie
KW  - Commercialisation
KW  - Aspect �economique
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - Agribusiness
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Sustainable Agriculture
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-262) and index; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; PROLOGUE: IN THE RAIN'S SHADOW --; I. The Conservation of the Countryside --; 2. Orchard Capitalists --; 3. Organize and Advertise --; 4. A Chemical Shield --; 5. White Men and Cheap Labor --; 6. Natural Advantages in the National Interest --; EPILOGUE: RESTLESS ORCHARD --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
N2  - The 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
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