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- 9780316592031
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
031659203X
ISBN-13
9780316592031
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13057234457
Product Key Features
Book Title
Palo Alto : a History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Number of Pages
720 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Social History, Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades, Economic Conditions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-936529
Reviews
"It feels wild to call this 720-page tome 'immensely readable,' but it is! Harris has deeply researched and developed his analysis of 170 years of history, and synthesizes it with skill into prose that's both understandable and a joy to read."-- Michelle C. , Powell's Books, "In Palo Alto , Malcolm Harris gives us a comprehensive deep-dive into the history of the Silicon Valley. From stomping on the Indigenous peoples, to immigration, railroading, the gold rush, and all of the other elements found in the history of Northern California, we learn when, how and why certain people came to power and what they did with that power... This is a long read, but well worth the time and effort. So much to learn on these pages!"-- Auntie's Bookstore (Spokane, Washington), "The question driving Malcolm Harris's inquisition into the flashy hollowness of Silicon Valley--predicated upon exploitation, grotesque inequality, and a total disavowal of the public good--becomes more urgent than ever: 'How does the Palo Alto System end without taking the rest of the transformed world down with it?'"-- David Helps , PROTEAN MAGAZINE, "A searching history of California and its role in predatory, extractive capitalism...[Harris] proposes a program of divestiture and restitution, including 'the forfeit of Stanford's vast accumulated wealth,' that is breathtaking in its audacity...highly readable, sharply argued and well researched." -- KIRKUS REVIEWS, Starred Review, "A useful counter to Silicon Valley's self-mythologizing, this history of Palo Alto begins in the late nineteenth century, with the state-funded genocide of Alta Indians by settlers and the coming of the railroad, which led, via the fortune of Leland Stanford, to the establishment of Stanford University ('the pseudostate governing Palo Alto'). Harris highlights the city's connection to the horrors of napalm, Japanese internment, and eugenics, and notes that many of the early tech companies in the area began 'in the space between the military and academia.'"-- THE NEW YORKER, "For a book whose concepts include global examples, Palo Alto exhibits mastery of local places...Harris has a planner's ingenuity for the relationship between place and people, but a broader worldview than most of us. Even local issues have global ramifications, and vice-versa."-- Asher Kohn , APA California Northern Section, "Epic... Palo Alto is crystalizing...not only for a generation of Americans, but for any citizen of the world who wishes to understand their situation in order to change it."-- Adrian Chen , INTERVIEW MAGAZINE, "Poignant...Harris compellingly shows that one of the distinctive historical faults of California was the oppression of Asian-Americans....Readers who can withstand, or enjoy, Harris's ideological bludgeon will learn some things about the region...Harris's explanations of scientific advances are detailed and punchy."-- Jason Willick , WASHINGTON EXAMINER, "Readers will relish Palo Alto for its scope and precision, for its pugnaciousness, and for its sardonic amazement at an emperor who couldn't be strolling down the avenue any nakeder. There's a brute glee is Harris's version of historical materialism; even the book's title eschews metaphor and abstraction. Harris has done the hard work, and he has done it in a cause: to urge us awake from our capitalist-technological inertial dream state. The truth may sometimes hurt, but the lies are in bed with collective death."-- Jonathan Lethem , THE NATION, "Engrossing. Harris has an engaging narrative voice and a marvelous command of language despite his propensity for peppering his work with expletives."-- Leonora Cravotta , THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR, "Malcolm Harris's singular and brilliant PALO ALTO is a geologic survey of the bedrock of the imperial violence that lies beneath the surface of some of the country's wealthiest Zip Codes. The formations it follows stretch outward across the globe, to Asia, Europe, across the Americas and to the rest of the United States. In the end, the book provides not so much an account of strict cause and effect--the familiar history of the robber barons and tech tycoons--but a core sample of the thorough-going greed and pillage at the heart of American history: the expropriation, the violence, and the guilt that seep upward through the soil of neoliberalism's most fruitful plain."-- Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of The Broken Heart of America, One of VULTURE's Most Anticipated Books of Winter One of SALON's Best Books of 2023 One of THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB's Must-Read Books of 2023 One of THE MILLIONS' and Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230111
Dewey Decimal
979.4/73
Synopsis
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 "extraordinary" 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 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, 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., 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 "extraordinary" 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 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, 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.
LC Classification Number
F869.P2H37 2023
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