California Dreaming Boosterism Memory Rural Suburbs

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At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian virtue existed alongside suburban development, and boosters purposefully harvested suburbs with an eye toward direct profit and metropolitan growth. This book examines how cultural memory and public history influenced agriburban communities, focusing on the power of historical narrative and the production of history. It explores how diverse interests such as agribusiness, real estate development, and regional growth intersected in the efforts to establish and maintain civic enterprises in California.