Strangers on Familiar Soil : Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection / Edward Dallam Melillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melillo, Edward Dallam, Author.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chilean Americans--California--History.

Chilean Americans.

Chilean Americans--California--Economic conditions.

California--History.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A wide-ranging exploration of the diverse historical connections between Chile and California This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet's diplomatic visit to the Golden State in 2008. During the intervening centuries, new crops, foods, fertilizers, mining technologies, laborers, and ideas from Chile radically altered California's development. In turn, Californian systems of servitude, exotic species, educational programs, and capitalist development strategies dramatically shaped Chilean history. Edward Dallam Melillo develops a new set of historical perspectives-tracing eastward-moving trends in U.S. history, uncovering South American influences on North America's development, and reframing the Western Hemisphere from a Pacific vantage point. His innovative approach yields transnational insights and recovers long-forgotten connections between the peoples and ecosystems of Chile and California.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Terminology

Maps

Introduction

Part I. Chile and the making of California

One. Cordilleras in Mind

Two. A Venice of Pine

Three. Chilecito and Spanishtown

Four. Manifest Destiny at the End of a Rope

Five. Supplementing the Soil

Part II. California and the making of Chile

Six. A Railroad in the Clouds

Seven. Mountains of Infamy, Vines of Plenty

Eight. The Davis Boys and the Fruits of Neoliberalism

Nine. Breaking the Rule of Exceptions

Epilogue: Worlds Not Realized

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21648-3

OCLC:

922581422