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Agriculture and Industry, Friends at Last - Benjamin T. Jenkins Octopus’s Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. 384 pp. $54.99 (cloth), ISBN 9780700634712

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Benjamin T. Jenkins Octopus’s Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. 384 pp. $54.99 (cloth), ISBN 9780700634712

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2025

Cristian Roberto Walk*
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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1 Previous works in this field include Garcia, Matt, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)Google Scholar; Sackman, Douglas Cazaux, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Alamillo, José M., Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880–1960 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006)Google Scholar.