Orange Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orange Empire write by Doug Sackman. This book was released on 2005-02-07. Orange Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export—the 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 the full story of the orange industry—how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges. That industry put up billboards in cities across the nation and placed enticing pictures of sun-kissed fruits into nearly every American's home. It convinced Americans that oranges could be consumed as embodiments of pure nature and talismans of good health. But, as this book shows, the tables were turned during the Great Depression when Upton Sinclair, Carey McWilliams, Dorothea Lange, and John Steinbeck made the Orange Empire into a symbol of what was wrong with America's relationship to nature.
Orange Empire
Orange Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orange Empire write by Douglas Cazaux Sackman. This book was released on 2005-02-07. Orange Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export--the orange. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry.
Orange Empire
Orange Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orange Empire write by Douglas Cazaux Sackman. This book was released on 2005. Orange Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Douglas Sackman peels an orange and finds inside nothing less than an American agricultural-industrial culture in all its inventive, exploitative, transformative, and destructive power. A beautifully researched and intellectually expansive book."—Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
Letters from the Orange Empire
Letters from the Orange Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters from the Orange Empire write by George Harold Powell. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Letters from the Orange Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Second Empire
Second Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Second Empire write by Richie Hofmann. This book was released on 2015-10-12. Second Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The delicate arc of these poems intimates—rather than tells—a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richie Hofmann disciplines his natural elegance into the sterner recognitions that matter: 'I am a little white omnivore,' the speaker of Second Empire discovers. Mastering directness and indirection, Hofmann's poems break through their own beauty."—Rosanna Warren This debut's spare, delicate poems explore ways we experience the afterlife of beauty while ornately examining lust, loss, and identity. Drawing upon traditions of amorous sonnets, these love-elegies desire an artistic and sexual connection to others—other times, other places—in order to understand aesthetic pleasures the speaker craves. Distant and formal, the poems feel both ancient and contemporary. Antique Book The sky was crazed with swallows. We walked in the frozen grass of your new city, I was gauzed with sleep. Trees shook down their gaudy nests. The ceramic pots were caparisoned with snow. I was jealous of the river, how the light broke it, of the skein of windows where we saw ourselves. Where we walked, the ice cracked like an antique book, opening and closing. The leaves beneath it were the marbled pages. Richie Hofmann is the winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MFA program, he is currently a Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.
