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Saraiva shows how such technoscientific organisms as specially bred wheat and pigs became important elements in the institutionalization and expansion of fascist regimes. The pigs, the potatoes, and the wheat embodied fascism. In Nazi Germany, only plants and animals conforming to the new national standards would be allowed to reproduce. Pigs that didn't efficiently convert German-grown potatoes into pork and lard were eliminated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaraiva describes national campaigns that intertwined the work of geneticists with new state bureaucracies; discusses fascist empires, considering forced labor on coffee, rubber, and cotton in Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Eastern Europe; and explores fascist genocides, following Karakul sheep from a laboratory in Germany to Eastern Europe, Libya, Ethiopia, and Angola.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaraiva's highly original account--the first systematic study of the relation between science and fascism--argues that the back to the land aspect of fascism should be understood as a modernist experiment involving geneticists and their organisms, mass propaganda, overgrown bureaucracy, and violent colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50281585934609,"sku":"CIN0262536153G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52419767173393,"sku":"NLS9780262536158","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262536153.jpg?v=1750940532"},{"product_id":"orchard-in-the-ruins-book-tiago-saraiva-9780226848013","title":"The Orchard in the Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIngeniously connects the history of citrus cultivation to the production and maintenance of whiteness in sites around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Orchard in the Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed historian Tiago Saraiva illuminates the global impact of cloning Californian oranges, a practice that emerged in the aftermath of the great depression of the 1890s. Cloning promised control, uniformity, and resistance to an array of environmental and economic threats. But Californian orchards—white-owned but tended by workers of Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, or Indigenous origin—were also places where plantations and race intertwined. Agricultural anxieties about strains of oranges and their value, Saraiva shows, formed a continuum with anxieties about vanishing whiteness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Orchard in the Ruins \u003c\/i\u003econnects Californian history to other sites of citrus cultivation: South Africa, where concerns about white poverty grew during the early twentieth century; Mandatory Palestine, where orchards were key to Zionist undertakings; colonial Algeria, where French settlers transformed the landscape with European farming techniques; and Brazil, where orchards were cultivated post-abolition. Drawing on local histories as well as the works of John Dewey, J. M. 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Orange cultivation was a transnational project in cultivating whiteness, one in which studies of fruits, buds, rootstocks, fungi, and viruses became race-making experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA must-read for anyone interested in the history of science, technology, agriculture, and race, \u003ci\u003eThe Orchard in the Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a troubled account of science-led attempts to remedy crumbling worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53452674367761,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53452674564369,"sku":"NGR9780226848013","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780226848013.jpg?v=1782818380"},{"product_id":"orchard-in-the-ruins-book-tiago-saraiva-9780226848037","title":"The Orchard in the Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIngeniously connects the history of citrus cultivation to the production and maintenance of whiteness in sites around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Orchard in the Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed historian Tiago Saraiva illuminates the global impact of cloning Californian oranges, a practice that emerged in the aftermath of the great depression of the 1890s. 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