Orange Empire - California and the Fruits of Eden California birds and the San Andreas Fault

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Orange Empire - California and the Fruits of Eden California birds and the San Andreas FaultThis innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature exportthe 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