Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World ~ SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
by Harris, Malcolm
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 031659203X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316592031
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First edition. Hardcover, signed. First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Little Brown and Company (2023) New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Brand new, never read SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Signed by author to publisher's specific bookplate, laid in. Dust jacket wrapped in protective archival grade Mylar. Photos available upon request. NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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.
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- Title
- Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World ~ SIGNED FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Harris, Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 031659203X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316592031
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- SIGNED, COLLECTIBLE, AUTOGRAPHED, CAPITALISM, MARXISM, CALIFORNIA, SILICON VALLEY, ECONOMICS
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