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  Ingeniously connects the history of citrus cultivation to the production and maintenance of whiteness in sites around the world. In The Orchard in the Ruins, acclaimed historian Tiago Saraiva illuminates the global impact of cloning Californian oranges, a practice that emerged in the aftermath of the great depression of the 1890s. Cloning promised control, uniformity, and resistance to an array of environmental and economic threats. But Californian orchards—white-owned but tended by workers of Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, or Indigenous origin—were also places where plantations and race intertwined. Agricultural anxieties about strains of oranges and their value, Saraiva shows, formed a continuum with anxieties about vanishing whiteness. The Orchard in the Ruins connects Californian history to other sites of citrus cultivation: South Africa, where concerns about white poverty grew during the early twentieth century; Mandatory Palestine, where orchards were key to Zionist undertakings; colonial Algeria, where French settlers transformed the landscape with European farming techniques; and Brazil, where orchards were cultivated post-abolition. Drawing on local histories as well as the works of John Dewey, J. M. Coetzee, Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, and artist Tarsila do Amaral, Saraiva shows that in each place, orchards grew in the wake of specific historical crises. Orange cultivation was a transnational project in cultivating whiteness, one in which studies of fruits, buds, rootstocks, fungi, and viruses became race-making experiments. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of science, technology, agriculture, and race, The Orchard in the Ruins reveals a troubled account of science-led attempts to remedy crumbling worlds.

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  • Kustantaja / Valmistaja The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN 9780226848013
  • Vuosi 2026
  • Tuotekoodi 9780226848013
  • Leveys (mm) 152
  • Pituus (mm) 229
  • Kieli Englanti
  • Alanimike Cloning Oranges and Cultivating Whiteness in America and the Global South
  • Kirjoittajat Tiago Saraiva
  • Sivumäärä 240
  • Sarja science.culture
  • Paino (g) 454
  • Tuotelinja Kirjat
  • Tuoteryhmä Ulk historia, muistelmat
  • Tuotemuoto Kovakantinen
  • Ilmestymispäivä 20.11.2026
  • Tuotepääryhmä Ulkomaiset tietokirjat
  • Tuoteturvallisuusyhteystiedot Mare Nostrum Group B.V., gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
  • Thema-luokitus Historia
  • ALV 13,5%

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