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Author: George L. Henderson (Professor of Geography, Professor of Geography, University of Arizona)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9780195108903
ISBN 10: 0195108906
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 11 February 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
<br> Henderson's book is an intellectual foray into the relationships among capital investment, the productive use of agricultural land, and how these issues have fired the imagination of novelists in California history from 1870 to 1920....Students of the American West and California will find it worthwhile. --Choice<br>
Henderson's book is an intellectual foray into the relationships among capital investment, the productive use of agricultural land, and how these issues have fired the imagination of novelists in California history from 1870 to 1920....Students of the American West and California will find it worthwhile. --Choice<br>
an excellent book which tries to do something quite imaginative. Understanding how novels written about California at this time not only reflected what was going on in terms of the material capitalist transformation of the rural landscape but, also, how they played into the very discourses about nature, capitalism, gender, and race which were themselves shaping these material transformations is a lofty goal, one which Henderson tackles deftly. * Andrew Herod, Environment and Planning * Henderson reads with an eye as sharp as any I have seen, turning his subjects every which way. He is at his best in a series of chapters in the second part that pair key events in the history of the California landscape with novels on the same subjects. His interweaving of the real estate bonanza that transformed southern California in the 1880s with a number of obscure boom novels brings energy tot the subject of western land speculation. * The Journal of American History, September 2000 * It is not at all clear what geography is about any more, since so many works bearing its name can be classified as history or criticism or some combination of both, Yet the vigor and style of California & the Fictions of Capital suggests that the field continues to attract talented scholars. * The Journal of American History, September 2000 *
Author Information
George L. Henderson is Assistant Professor of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Arizona, where he is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Program in Comparative and Cultural Literary Studies.
