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Trees in paradise : a California history
- Title
- Trees in paradise : a California history / Jared Farmer.
- Author
- Farmer, Jared, 1974-
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IXG 13-7357 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xl, 552 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm
- Summary
- Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles
- Subject
- Landscape assessment > California > History
- Trees > California > History
- Giant sequoia > California > History
- Coast redwood > California > History
- Eucalyptus > California > History
- Citrus > California > History
- Palms > California > History
- Horticulture > United States > History
- Human ecology > United States > History
- California > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part One. Redwoods : The Value of Longevity -- Twilight of the giants -- The perpetual last stand -- Part Two. Eucalypts : The Taxonomy of Belonging -- Immigration and naturalization -- Natives, aliens, and (bio)diversity -- Part Three. Citruses : The Industry of Growth -- Orange revolution -- Cultural costs -- Part Four. Palms : The Ecology of Style -- Cosmopolitan fronds -- Aesthetic infrastructure -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species.
- Call Number
- IXG 13-7357
- ISBN
- 9780393078022 (hardcover)
- 0393078027 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2013021309
- OCLC
- 829738439
- Author
- Farmer, Jared, 1974-
- Title
- Trees in paradise : a California history / Jared Farmer.
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IXG 13-7357