Paradise Transplanted Migration and the Making of California Gardens

Name: Paradise Transplanted Migration and the Making of California Gardens
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ISBN: 9780520277779

ISBN-10: 0520277775

ISBN-13: 9780520277779

Edition: 2014

Authors: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

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Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, plants, and seeds. In Paradise Transplanted, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo reveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure, status, and our experiences of nature and community. Drawing on historical archival research, ethnography, and over one hundred interviews with a wide range of people including suburban homeowners, paid Mexican immigrant gardeners, professionals at the most elite botanical garden in the West, and immigrant community…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English