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Domestic Commerce Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Domestic Commerce Series

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1932
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Agricultural Economics Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Agricultural Economics Bibliography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1931
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Agricultural Economics Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 786

Agricultural Economics Bibliography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1930
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Long-and-short-haul Charges
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1390

Long-and-short-haul Charges

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1938
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2338

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1940
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Fruits of Natural Advantage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

The Fruits of Natural Advantage

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.

Garden of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Garden of the World

Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. In Garden of the World, Cecilia Tsu tells the overlooked, intertwined histories of the Santa Clara Valley's agricultural past and the Asian immigrants who cultivated the land during the region's peak decades of horticultural production. Weaving together the story of three overlapping waves of Asian migration from China, Japan, and the Philippines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Tsu offers a comparative history that sheds light on the ways in which Asian farmers and laborers fundamentally altered the ...

State and Federal Marketing Activities and Other Economic Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

State and Federal Marketing Activities and Other Economic Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1934
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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California Fruit News
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 20

California Fruit News

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1927
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Report of the ... Fruit-Growers' Convention of the State of California
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132