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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By:

Harris, Malcolm [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Little, Brown and Company, 2023Description: 720 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Audience:

General
Adult

ISBN:

9780316592031 ;

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

979.004

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	John Tomay Memorial Library	ANF	979 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	31030100284801

New Book 2023 Spring.

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.