Semi Tropic California And Southern California Horticulturist

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Genre : Agriculture
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Release : 1877
File : 434 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCBK:C039728693


Tropic Of Hopes

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Just after the Civil War, two states prominently laid claim to being America's paradise destinations. Private companies, state agencies, and journalists all lent a hand in creating a seductive, expansionist imagery that promoted semitropical California and Florida and helped "sell" Americans on the idea of an attainable paradise within the United States. In Tropic of Hopes, Henry Knight examines the promotion of California and Florida from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Great Depression, a period when both states were transformed from remote, sparsely populated locales into two of the most publicized and dreamed-about destinations in America. Using the discussion of climate, geography, race, and environment to link agricultural, tourist, and urban development in these regions, Knight provides a highly original and informative account.

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Genre : History
Author : Knight, Henry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Release : 2013-09-17
File : 280 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780813048413


Rural Californian

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Genre : Agriculture
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Release : 1891
File : 134 Pages
ISBN-13 : SRLF:D0002967149


Southern California Gardens

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Account of the land and its flora, both native and naturalized, and of the men and women who devoted themselves to its cultivation.

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Genre : Gardens
Author : Victoria Padilla
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Release : 1961
File : 398 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015067894215


Land Of Sunshine

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Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning-the environmental history of urbanism—is one place to turn for the more complex lessons LA has to offer. Working forward from ancient times and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles. Rather than rehearsing a litany of errors or insults against nature, rather than decrying the lost opportunities of "roads not taken," these essays, by nineteen leading geologists, ecologists, and historians, instead consider the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature. In the nineteenth century, for example, "density" was considered an evil, and reformers struggled mightily to move the working poor out to areas where better sanitation and flowers and parks "made life seem worth the living." We now call that vision "sprawl," and we struggle just as much to bring middle-class people back into the core of American cities. There's nothing natural, or inevitable, about such turns of events. It's only by paying very close attention to the ways metropolitan nature has been constructed and construed that meaningful lessons can be drawn. History matters. So here are the plants and animals of the Los Angeles basin, its rivers and watersheds. Here are the landscapes of fact and fantasy, the historical actors, events, and circumstances that have proved transformative over and over again. The result is a nuanced and rich portrait of Los Angeles that will serve planners, communities, and environmentalists as they look to the past for clues, if not blueprints, for enhancing the quality and viability of cities.

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Genre : History
Author : William Deverell
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release : 2011-12-12
File : 362 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780822973119


An Illustrated History Of Southern California

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Genre : History
Author : Lewis Publishing
Publisher : Рипол Классик
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File : 971 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9785879878806


Empire Of Vines

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The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America. Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California—a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture. Empire of Vines details the ways would-be gentleman farmers, ambitious speculators, horticulturalists, and writers of all kinds deployed the animating myths of American wine culture, including the classical myth of Bacchus, the cult of terroir, and the fantasy of pastoral republicanism. Promoted by figures as varied as horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing, novelist Charles Chesnutt, railroad baron Leland Stanford, and Cincinnati land speculator Nicholas Longworth (known as the father of American wine), these myths naturalized claims to land for grape cultivation and legitimated national expansion. Vineyards were simultaneously lush and controlled, bearing fruit at once culturally refined and naturally robust, laying claim to both earthy authenticity and social pedigree. The history of wine culture thus reveals nineteenth-century Americans' fascination with the relationship between nature and culture.

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Genre : History
Author : Erica Hannickel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Release : 2013-10-09
File : 313 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780812208900


The Gardener S Monthly And Horticulturist

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Genre : Gardening
Author : Thomas Meehan
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Release : 1883
File : 412 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044103119301


Biennial Report Of The State Board Of Horticulture

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Contains laws relating to horticulture, extracts from board meetings, secretary's report, report on the fruit growers' convention (13th), olive oil manufacture, report on fruit culture in foreign countries.

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Genre : Fruit-culture
Author : California. State Board of Horticulture
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Release : 1890
File : 556 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCBK:C036564463


Transactions Of The Massachusetts Horticultural Society

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Genre : Agriculture
Author : Massachusetts Horticultural Society
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Release : 1878
File : 282 Pages
ISBN-13 : CHI:092017514