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The king of California :J.G. Boswell and the making of a secret American empire
- 作者: Arax, Mark,
- 其他作者: Wartzman, Rick.
- 出版: New York : PublicAffairs c2003.
- 稽核項: viii, 558 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
- 標題: Pioneers California -- San Joaquin Valley -- Biography. , History , San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) History -- 20th century. , Agricultural industries California -- San Joaquin Valley -- History -- 20th century. , San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) Economic conditions -- 20th century. , Cotton growing California -- San Joaquin Valley -- History -- 20th century. , Businessmen California -- San Joaquin Valley -- Biography. , San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) Biography. , Boswell, James Griffin. , Boswell family. , Agricultural industries , Economic conditions , San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) , Cotton farmers California -- San Joaquin Valley -- Biography. , Cotton growing , Pioneers , Cotton farmers , Businessmen
- ISBN: 1586482815 , 9781586482817
- 附註: Maps on endpapers. 美國加州大學柏克萊分校Dunbar H. Ogden教授(賴聲川老師博士論文指導教授)2006年捐贈. Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-531) and index.
- 系統號: 005247529
- 資料類型: 圖書
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The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come. J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s,drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world. Indeed, the sophistication of Boswell 's agricultural operation -from lab to field to gin - is unrivaled anywhere. Much more than a business story, this is a sweeping social history that details the saga of cotton growers who were chased from the South by the boll weevil and brought their black farmhands to California. It is a gripping read with cameos by a cast of famous characters, from Cecil B. DeMille to Cesar Chavez.
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