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Sto caricando le informazioni... Trees in paradise : a California history (edizione 2013)di Jared Farmer
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I found Trees in Paradise too detailed for popular history, and likely too scattershot in subject to interest academic scholars. Farmer's approach (thematically grouping around groups of trees that characterize the California landscape and history) is sound. But do we really need to cover every freeze that threatened citrus trees in the last 150 years? Similarly, the section on eucalypts seemed interminable. A more heavy-handed editor might have improved this mightily. ( ) Equally mocking of liberal pretensions and conservative indifference to the environment, Farmer traces the history of California via trees—eucalyptus, palm, oranges, redwoods. They’re interesting stories, and some of the sharpest moments come when people import the language of “immigration” to defend or attack certain trees. As he points out, though, the great exclusionist racists of the 19th and 20th centuries were often the most excited to import trees they thought would be good for the economy, so the analogy was never coherent. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)634.09794Technology Agriculture & related technologies Fruits; Orchards; Vineyards Fruits; Nuts; Forestry CaliforniaClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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