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Palo Alto : a history of California, capitalism, and the world
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316592031
- ISBN: 031659203X
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Physical Description:
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viii, 708 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-677) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 0.1 Introduction -- Section I 1850-1900. 1.1 To whom time is money -- 1.2 The combine -- 1.3 Blood that trots young -- Section II 1900-1945. 2.1 Local ghosts -- 2.2 Bionomics -- 2.3 Hooverville -- 2.4 Men with potential -- Section III 1945-1975. 3.1 Space settlers -- 3.2. The solid state -- 3.3 Personal revolution -- 3.4 How to destroy an empire -- Section IV 1975-2000. 4.1 California über Alles -- 4.2 War capitalism -- 4.3 Jobs and Gates -- 4.4 Americas online -- Section V 2000-2020. 5.1 B2K -- 5.2 You better try to make me rich -- 5.3 Blister in the sun -- 6.1 Resolution. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | 979.473 H315p 2023 (Text) | 33126025327366 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Palo Alto's weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably world-changing. Palo Alto is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, andan integral part of the capitalist world system. In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies,technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the "tragedy of the commons," racial genetics, and "broken windows" theory. The Internet and computers, too. It's a story about how a small American suburb became a powerful engine for economic growth and war, and how it came to lead the world into a surprisingly disastrous 21st century. PALO ALTO is an urgent and visionary history of the way we live now, one that ends with a clear-eyed, radical proposition for how we might begin to change course. - Grand Central Pub
Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE ⢠THE NEW REPUBLIC ⢠DAZED ⢠WIRED ⢠BLOOMBERG ⢠ESQUIRE ⢠SALON ⢠THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB
The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an âextraordinaryâ story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth).Palo Altoâs weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably world-changing. Palo Alto is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system.
In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies, technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the "tragedy of the commons," racial genetics, and "broken windows" theory. The Internet and computers, too. It's a story about how a small American suburb became a powerful engine for economic growth and war, and how it came to lead the world into a surprisingly disastrous 21st century. PALO ALTO is an urgent and visionary history of the way we live now, one that ends with a clear-eyed, radical proposition for how we might begin to change course.