The fruits of natural advantage
Subtitle: making the industrial countryside in California
By: Steven Stoll.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Fruit industry -- California; Fruit -- California -- Marketing; Horticulture -- California; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- California
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-262) and index.