An Historical Review of the East Bay Exchange
Title | An Historical Review of the East Bay Exchange PDF eBook |
Author | R. S. Masters |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Alameda County (Calif.) |
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An Historical Review of the East Bay Exchange, Oakland Berkeley, Alameda ...
Title | An Historical Review of the East Bay Exchange, Oakland Berkeley, Alameda ... PDF eBook |
Author | R. S. Masters |
Publisher | |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Alameda County (Calif.) |
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An Historical Review of the San Francisco Exchange
Title | An Historical Review of the San Francisco Exchange PDF eBook |
Author | R. S. Masters |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | San Francisco (Calif.) |
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No There There
Title | No There There PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Rhomberg |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2004-02-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520940881 |
Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-century America. Taking Oakland as a case study of urban politics and society in the United States, Chris Rhomberg examines the city's successive episodes of popular insurgency for what they can tell us about critical discontinuities in the American experience of urban political community.
An Economic History of Local and Interurban Transportation in the East Bay Cities
Title | An Economic History of Local and Interurban Transportation in the East Bay Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Dallas Walker Smythe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1428 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Transportation |
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America Calling
Title | America Calling PDF eBook |
Author | Claude S. Fischer |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520915003 |
The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology—how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three California communities, Fischer uncovers how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century. Women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then later wholeheartedly promoted. Again and again Fischer finds that the telephone supported a wide-ranging network of social relations and played a crucial role in community life, especially for women, from organizing children's relationships and church activities to alleviating the loneliness and boredom of rural life. Deftly written and meticulously researched, America Calling adds an important new chapter to the social history of our nation and illuminates a fundamental aspect of cultural modernism that is integral to contemporary life.
Pacific Telephone Magazine
Title | Pacific Telephone Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 830 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Telephone |
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