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" America's Arabia: The Date Industry and the Cultivation of Middle Eastern Fantasies in the Deserts of Southern California "
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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802938
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TL48118
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1656486751; 3682040
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| Main Entry
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Lacouture, Matthew Thomas
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America's Arabia: The Date Industry and the Cultivation of Middle Eastern Fantasies in the Deserts of Southern California
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\ Sarah Anne Seekatz
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McGarry, Molly
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University of California, Riverside
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2014
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Ph.D.
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2014
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History
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342
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Committee members: Gudis, Catherine; Ruiz, Vicki
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-55153-2
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| Abstract
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This dissertation explores the creation of 'America's Arabia' in the Coachella Valley, California and the date industry that grew there. Importantly, it profiles United States Department of Agriculture agricultural explorers, scientists who traveled the globe looking for new crops at the turn of the twentieth century. When these agricultural explorers ventured to the Greater Middle East to bring back date offshoots, they took with them a popular understanding of the Orient that shaped their views of the date palms and the people who grew them.
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Agronomy; American history
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| Descriptor
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Social sciences;Biological sciences;American Orientalism;California;Coachella Valley;Date palm;Greater Middle East;United States Department of Agriculture;Western imagination
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McGarry, Molly
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University of California, Riverside
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History
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