Orange Empire

Description:

"This 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 first time the full story of that enormous and influential industry - how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges."--Jacket.

subjects: Environmental conditions,  History,  Economic conditions,  Orange industry,  Industries, history,  California, history,  California, economic conditions,  United states, environmental conditions,  Food industry and trade,  Ecology,  Economic history,  Orangenanbau,  Wirtschaftliche Lage,  Agrumiculture,  Oranges,  Histoire,  Agro-alimentation,  Environnement,  Industrie,  Orange (fruit),  Société (milieu humain),  20e s. (1ère moitié)