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Rebuilt and Remade: The Florida Citrus Industry, 1909-1939.
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Creator
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Padgett, James, Lester, Connie, Pineda, Yovanna, French, Scot, University of Central Florida
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Abstract / Description
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Prior to orange juice concentrate, Florida citrus was already an industrialized agricultural sector. This thesis explores the early-20th-century Florida citrus industry and demonstrates that contemporary farming practices were influential in advancing how citrus was produced, processed, worked, marketed, and regulated in early-20th-century Florida. Restarted after devastating freezes in 1894-1895, resolute Florida growers rebuilt their groves into marvels of large-scale citrus fruit...
Show morePrior to orange juice concentrate, Florida citrus was already an industrialized agricultural sector. This thesis explores the early-20th-century Florida citrus industry and demonstrates that contemporary farming practices were influential in advancing how citrus was produced, processed, worked, marketed, and regulated in early-20th-century Florida. Restarted after devastating freezes in 1894-1895, resolute Florida growers rebuilt their groves into marvels of large-scale citrus fruit production. Continuing a legacy in experimental crossbreeding, improved varieties of citrus were developed to lengthen the season and markets. Advocated by nurserymen and university educators, biological innovation helped the citrus thrive in the 1910s and 1920s from adverse weather effects, pests, and diseases. Scientists were agents of modernization whose research influenced its industrialization. With the inclusion of machines in the processing of citrus, technological innovation materialized significantly in Florida's packinghouses by the 1930s. These changes affected the lives of agricultural workers and small growers. Whether by prejudice or by resisting collective efforts, big growers gained power and influence in the industry, Their power concentrated into the Florida Citrus Codes and Florida Citrus Commission in 1935, which effectively allowed large-scale growers to direct the industry's development into the rest of the 20th century. In all, this reexamination into Florida citrus exemplifies the remaking of this industry into a modern agricultural system as well as the gradualism of southern agricultural modernization in early-20th-century America.
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Date Issued
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2018
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Identifier
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CFE0007906, ucf:52745
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Document (PDF)
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007906
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Florida for tourists, invalids, and settlers: containing practical information regarding climate, soil, and productions; cities, towns, and people; the culture of the orange and other tropical fruits; farming and gardening; scenery and resorts; sport; routes of travel, etc., etc.
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Barbour, George M., PALMM (Project)
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Based on the writer's personal observations, describes and comments upon the various regions of Florida, the climate, people, agricultural products and resources.
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Date Issued
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1884
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Identifier
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AAA3354QF00012/20/200108/04/200515919BfamI D0QF, FHP C CF 2001-12-20, FCLA url 20020606xOCLC, 50187276, CF00001577, 2562653, ucf:9439
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E-book
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001577.jpg
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My pioneer days in Florida, 1876-1898.
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Bell, Emily Lagow, PALMM (Project)
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Personal account of the Bell family's move from Indiana to Ft. Pierce, Florida with numerous anecdotes and descriptions of places they saw and people they met.
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Identifier
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AAC2509QF00011/15/200603/02/200712094BnamI? D0QF, FHP S UCF 2006-11-15, FIPS12111, FCLA url 20070302, CF00001730, 2700743, ucf:20074
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E-book
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001730.jpg
