The Fruits of Empire : Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion
by
Shana Klein
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
ISBN-10
0520296397
ISBN-13
9780520296398
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 13th, 2020
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
834 grams
Dimensions
18.40 x 26.10 x 2.30 cms
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The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and transportation technologies. This excitement for fruit manifested in an explosion of fruit imagery within still life paintings, prints, trade cards, and more. Images of fruit labor and consumption by immigrants and people of color also gained visibility, merging alongside the efforts of expansionists to assimilate land and, in some cases, people into the national body. Divided into five chapters on visual images of the grape, orange, watermelon, banana, and pineapple, this book demonstrates how representations of fruit struck the nerve of the nation’s most heated debates over land, race, and citizenship in the age of high imperialism.
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