Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens

by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520277775
• ISBN13: 9780520277779
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"