Pineapple culture : a history of the tropical and temperate zones
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Pineapple culture : a history of the tropical and temperate zones
（The California world history library, 10）
University of California Press, c2009
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- : pbk
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"An Ahmanson book in the humanities"--Back cover
Bibliography: p. 217-238
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780520255135
Description
Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple Culture is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career. Following Gary Y. Okihiro's enthusiastically received Island World: A History of Hawaii and the United States, Pineapple Culture continues to upend conventional ideas about history, space, and time with its provocative vision. At the center of the story is the thoroughly modern tale of Dole's "Hawaiian" pineapple, which, from its island periphery, infiltrated the white, middle-class homes of the continental United States. The transit of the pineapple brilliantly illuminates the history and geography of empires--their creations and accumulations; the circuits of knowledge, capital, labor, goods, and the cultures that characterize them; and their assumed power to name, classify, and rule over alien lands, peoples, and resources.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Mapping Desires 2. Empire's Tropics 3. Tropical Fruit 4. Pineapple Diaspora 5. Hawaiian Mission 6. Tropical Plantation 7. Hawaiian Pine 8. Pineapple Modern Notes Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780520265905
Description
Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate U.S. and world markets. Pineapple Culture is a dazzling history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career. Following Gary Y. Okihiro's enthusiastically received Island World: A History of Hawaii and the United States, Pineapple Culture continues to upend conventional ideas about history, space, and time with its provocative vision. At the center of the story is the thoroughly modern tale of Dole's "Hawaiian" pineapple, which, from its island periphery, infiltrated the white, middle-class homes of the continental United States. The transit of the pineapple brilliantly illuminates the history and geography of empires--their creations and accumulations; the circuits of knowledge, capital, labor, goods, and the cultures that characterize them; and their assumed power to name, classify, and rule over alien lands, peoples, and resources.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Mapping Desires 2. Empire's Tropics 3. Tropical Fruit 4. Pineapple Diaspora 5. Hawaiian Mission 6. Tropical Plantation 7. Hawaiian Pine 8. Pineapple Modern Notes Bibliography Index
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