Author

Publication

1998 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

68,250 words, Guess

Page Count

273 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing2127785

Classifications

  • DDC338.1/74/09794
  • LCCHD9247.C2 S73 1998

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

Other Editions

  • The fruits of natural advantage: making the industrial countryside in CaliforniaUniversity of California Press1998-01-01

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