Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | History |
---|---|
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward D Melillo |
ISBN: | 9780300206623 0300206623 |
OCLC Number: | 938792125 |
Description: | xiv, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Series Title: | Yale agrarian studies. |
Responsibility: | Edward Dallam Melillo. |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
Named an Honor book by the Denver Public Library for the 2016 Caroline Bancroft History Prize. -- Bancroft History Prize * Denver Public Library * Co-winner of the 2016 Caughey Western History Prize, given by the Western History Association -- Caughey Western History Prize * Western History Association * "A fascinating story of how Chile and California, on separate continents, sharing comparable climates and geography, have had dramatic reciprocal social and environmental impacts, initially fueled by the California Gold Rush."-Harold Mooney, Stanford University -- Harold Mooney "Melillo brilliantly centers this hemispheric history around Chile and California-two places increasingly connected over the past 200 years by crops, technologies, people, and ideas. Strangers on Familiar Soil demonstrates the tremendous potential and necessity of transnational and comparative history. This is a stunning accomplishment."-David Igler, author of The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush -- David Igler "Melillo's pithy book insightfully explores how California helped make Chile and how Chile helped make California over the past two centuries. Politically astute, ecologically attuned, and easy to read."-J. R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 -- J. R. McNeill "An empirically rich, well written, and wide-ranging history that provides a novel perspective on important transnational connections in the Americas."-John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University -- John Soluri "This is a gem of a book: deeply researched, elegantly written, original in its conception, beautiful in its execution."-Raymond Craib, Cornell University -- Raymond Craib "Melillo has written what could be called a double-helix history that reveals the environmental, social, and commercial bonds between Chile and California. It is a major contribution to the emerging field of Pacific World history."-Christopher Boyer, author of Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico -- Christopher Boyer Read more...

