The Georgia Peach : Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies on the American South
ISBN-10
1107071720
ISBN-13
9781107071728
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 22nd, 2016
Print length
316 Pages
Weight
586 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 16.20 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasSocial & cultural history
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This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book joins a renaissance in writing about the food, agriculture, and environment of the American South.
Imprinted on license plates, plastered on billboards, stamped on the tail side of the state quarter, and inscribed on the state map, the peach is easily Georgia''s most visible symbol. Yet Prunus persica itself is surprisingly rare in Georgia, and it has never been central to the southern agricultural economy. Why, then, have southerners - and Georgians in particular - clung to the fruit? The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South shows that the peach emerged as a viable commodity at a moment when the South was desperate for a reputation makeover. This agricultural success made the fruit an enduring cultural icon despite the increasing difficulties of growing it. A delectable contribution to the renaissance in food writing, The Georgia Peach will be of great interest to connoisseurs of food, southern, environmental, rural, and agricultural history.
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