TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,Malcolm
TI  - Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
SN  - 9780316592031 ;
U1  - 979.004 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - High technology industries
KW  - History
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
KW  - California
KW  - Palo Alto (Calif.)
N1  - New Book 2023 Spring; Adult
N2  - 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
ER  -