At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a
suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian
virtue existed alongside good roads, social clubs, cultural
institutions, and business commerce. The California suburban dream
was the ultimate symbol of progress and modernity. California
Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State
analyzes the growth, promotion, and agricultural colonization that
fed this dream during the early 1900s. Through this analysis, Paul
J. P. Sandul introduces a newly identified rural-suburban type: the
agriburb, a rural suburb deliberately planned, developed, and
promoted for profit. Sandul reconceptualizes California's growth
during this time period, establishing the agriburb as a suburban
phenomenon that occurred long before the booms of the 1920s and
1950s. Sandul's analysis contributes to a new suburban history that
includes diverse constituencies and geographies and focuses on the
production and construction of place and memory. Boosters
purposefully ""harvested"" suburbs with an eye toward direct profit
and metropolitan growth. State boosters boasted of unsurpassable
idyllic communities while local boosters bragged of communities
that represented the best of the best, both using narratives of
place, class, race, lifestyle, and profit to avow images of the
rural and suburban ideal. This suburban dream attracted people who
desired a family home, nature, health, culture, refinement, and
rural virtue. In the agriburb, a family could live on a small home
grove while enjoying the perks of a progressive city. A home
located within the landscape of natural California with access to
urban amenities provided a good place to live and a way to gain
revenue through farming. To uncover and dissect the agriburb,
Sandul focuses on local histories from California's Central Valley
and the Inland Empire of Southern California, including Ontario
near Los Angeles and Orangevale and Fair Oaks outside Sacramento.
His analysis closely operates between the intersections of history,
anthropology, geography, sociology, and the rural and urban, while
examining a metanarrative that exposes much about the nature and
lasting influence of cultural memory and public history upon
agriburban communities.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
