| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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Book Review

Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875–1920. By David Vaught. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 280 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $38.00.)

Here is a book worth reading. This detailed history of four central and northern California agricultural communities is developed around pivotal issues of race, gender, market forces, and entrepreneurial vision. It is local history at its best. 1

Each community grew out of a vision. These visions mixed highly individualized European and American concepts of agrarianism with the pecuniary aspirations of the individual developers. The result was that four distinct communities emerged during the late nineteenth century. Regardless of their special features, each community faced similar outside forces. On the one hand, national and international market forces impacted the communities in similar ways, while on the other hand commonly held ideas about gender and race powered their way into each of the communities. Yet as the author shows with particular documents, the communities produced specialty crops whose requirements altered each of them in precise ways. . . .

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