| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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Book Review

Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden. By Douglas Cazaux Sackman. London and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvi + 386 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $45.00.

Over the past twenty years, a series of books have examined the political power, racial discrimination, and agricultural regime that shaped rural California into an industrial countryside. Most recently, Richard Walker's The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California attempts a synthesis of much of this work, with special attention to oranges. Yet though historians have known about the orange business for a long time, none ever assembled a more subtle, expansive, and intricate narrative than Douglas Sackman's Orange Empire. Sackman brings together the tangled social relations, commercial ambitions, and compulsive image making that made orange growing more than agriculture production but a kind of cultural reproduction.

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