Soft Soil, Black Grapes Rod Scher Cates Baldridge argues that agricultural

Cates Baldridge argues that agricultural ideology justified the tedium and toil of farming by enlisting a rhetorical foil: the "savage" and "backward" hunter-gatherer

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Soft Soil, Black Grapes Rod Scher Cates Baldridge argues that agriculturalWinner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly Professional Book Design From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italians have shaped the history of California wine. More than any other group, Italian immigrants and their families have made California viticulture one of America's most distinctive and vibrant achievements, from boutique vineyards in the Sonoma hills to the massive industrial wineries of the Central Valley. But how