An edition of The fruits of natural advantage (1998)
The fruits of natural advantage
making the industrial countryside in California
By Steven Stoll
Publish Date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
eng
Pages
273
Description:
"In the arid valleys and coastal plains of California, fruit growers established a new agriculture during the first decades of this century. In The Fruits of Natural Advantage, 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 the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
subjects: Agriculture, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Agriculture, Fruit, Fruit industry, Horticulture, Marketing, Fruit, marketing, Agriculture, economic aspects, united states, California, economic conditions, Fruit trade, Fruits, Commerce, Commercialisation, Aspect économique, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Industries, Agribusiness, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Sustainable Agriculture, HISTORY, State & Local, West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Places: California