The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California

by Richard A. Walker

Book Overview

For over a century, California has been the world's most advanced agricultural zone, an agrarian juggernaut that not only outproduces every state in America, but also most countries. California's success, however, has come at significant costs. Never a family-farm region like the Midwest, California's landscape and Mediterranean climate have been manipulated and exploited to serve modern business interests. Home to gargantuan accomplishments such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565848772
• ISBN13: 9781565848771
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.5"