| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

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

The most discernible narrative arc in Douglas Sackman's Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden runs from the birth of the Golden State's orange industry at the Tibbets's Riverside home in 1878 to the rotting remains of the Orange Empire's economic and cultural power during World War II. The intervening decades witnessed California agribusiness capture the state's growth machine and enshrine the orange as a symbol of health, wealth, natural abundance, and vitality. And yet to describe Orange Empire through this linear narrative arc is a tremendous disservice. Sackman's study has tremendous temporal and topical range: it transports us across an array of landscapes, from the original Garden (yes, that other Eden) to the gardens outside our present-day homes, drawing nuanced insights from cultural theory, political economy, and extensive primary research in labor, environmental, social, and industrial history. Quite simply, this might be the most compelling and creative account of California's hybrid cultural and natural landscapes to date.

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