Valley of Heart's Delight : Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Anne Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).

Agriculture and state.

High technology industries--Environmental aspects--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).

High technology industries.

Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)--History.

Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Valley of Heart's Delight

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : University of California Press, 2022.

Summary:

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the region's focus shifted from fruits--such as apricots and prunes--to computers. Both personal and public rhetoric reveals how a sense of place emerges and changes in an evolving agricultural community like the Santa Clara Valley. Through extensive archival research and interviews, Anne Marie Todd explores the concepts of place and placelessness, arguing that place is more than a physical location and that exploring a community's sense of place can help us to map how individuals experience their natural surroundings and their sense of responsibility towards the local environment. Todd extends the concept of sense of place to describe Silicon Valley as a non-place, where weakened or disrupted attachment to place threatens the environment and community. The story of the Santa Clara Valley is an American story of the development of agricultural lands and the transformation of rural regions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. The World’s Largest Orchard: Valley as Natural Wonder

Two. Prune Pickers and ’Cot Cutters: Valley as Fruit Factory

Three. From Farmland to Metropolis: Valley as Symbol of Progress

Four. Conclusion

Research Notes

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520389601

0520389603

OCLC:

1340959693