Paradise Transplanted : Migration and the Making of California Gardens / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens--California--History.

Gardens.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (722 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 gardeners in the poorest neighborhoods of inner-city Los Angeles, this book offers insights into the ways that diverse global migrations and garden landscapes shape our social world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Gardens of Migration

2. Ellis Island on the Land

3. The Gardeners of Eden

4. "It's a Little Piece of My Country"

5. Cultivating Elite Inclusion

6. Paradise, Future

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520959217

0520959213

OCLC:

889271449