num_pages: 272
description: Plucked from tropical America the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple Culture is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career. Following Gary Y. Okihiro's enthusiastically received Island A History of Hawaii and the United States Pineapple Culture continues to upend conventional ideas about history space and time with its provocative vision. At the center of the story is the thoroughly modern tale of Dole's Hawaiian pineapple which from its island periphery infiltrated the white middle-class homes of the continental United States. The transit of the pineapple brilliantly illuminates the history and geography of empirestheir creations and accumulations; the circuits of knowledge capital labor goods and the cultures that characterize them; and their assumed power to name classify and rule over alien lands peoples and resources.
language: English
title: Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones
publisher: University of California Press