Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) [Signed]

Melillo, Edward Dallam

ISBN 10: 0300206623 / ISBN 13: 9780300206623

Published by Yale Univ Pr, New Haven, 2015

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Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale Univ Pr., 2015, first printing. 8vo., xiv+325pp., illustrated. Signed by author on title page. "Edward Dallam Melillo develops a new set of historical perspectives?tracing eastward-moving trends in U.S. history, uncovering South American influences on North America?s development, and reframing the Western Hemisphere from a Pacific vantage point. His innovative approach yields transnational insights and recovers long-forgotten connections between the peoples and ecosystems of Chile and California." Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) [Signed]
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300206623
• ISBN 13: 9780300206623
• Binding: Hard
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History & Americana
  • Signed

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Synopsis

A wide-ranging exploration of the diverse historical connections between Chile and California

This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet’s diplomatic visit to the Golden State in 2008. During the intervening centuries, new crops, foods, fertilizers, mining technologies, laborers, and ideas from Chile radically altered California's development. In turn, Californian systems of servitude, exotic species, educational programs, and capitalist development strategies dramatically shaped Chilean history.
 
Edward Dallam Melillo develops a new set of historical perspectives—tracing eastward-moving trends in U.S. history, uncovering South American influences on North America’s development, and reframing the Western Hemisphere from a Pacific vantage point. His innovative approach yields transnational insights and recovers long-forgotten connections between the peoples and ecosystems of Chile and California.

About the Author

Edward Dallam Melillo is associate professor of history and environmental studies, Amherst College. He lives in Northampton, MA.