Paradise Transplanted : Migration and the Making of California Gardens

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.

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ISBN: 9780520277762
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ISBN: 9780520277762
ISBN: 0520959213
ISBN: 9780520959217
Physical Description: 1 online resource (722 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.17
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Title; Copyright; Epigraph; Contents; List of 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.
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Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.