Blossoms and borders: Cultivating apples and a modern countryside in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-2001.

Blossoms and borders: Cultivating apples and a modern countryside in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-2001.

At the turn of the twentieth century, apples served as a catalyst for far-reaching social and environmental change in the North American West. As people debated the future of North American society as a rural or urban civilization, rural advocates found their answer in horticulture. Steadfast in the...

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Main Author: Bennett, Jason Patrick
Other Authors: Roy, Patricia E.
Language:English
en
Published: 2008
Subjects:
apple
fruit
horticulture
rural
ecology
borderlands
landscape
colonialism
countryside
modernity
agriculture
migrant
regionalism
boundaries
northwest
pacific
UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Canada > History
UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::United States > History
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/876

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