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Zusatztext "Those many with a personal tie to Berkeley will devour this book with delight." Informationen zum Autor Charles Wollenberg , Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of History at Berkeley City College, is coeditor, with Marcia A. Eymann, of What’s Going On? California and the Vietnam Era (UC Press) and author of Marinship at War: Shipbuilding and Social Change in Wartime Sausalito and Golden Gate Metropolis: Perspectives on Bay Area Regional History. Klappentext "A sweeping panorama of Berkeley by one of California's finest historians. Wollenberg knows this city like no one else, and he has the rare capacity to link a compelling local narrative to larger currents in American politics, economics and culture. This book has no rivals. Anyone who cares about Berkeley—and there are many—will devour it with pleasure."—Richard Walker, Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley Zusammenfassung Presenting a history of Berkeley, this chronicle connects the people, trends, and events that made the city to much larger themes in history. It ranges from the native builders of shellmounds to the blue-collar residents of Ocean View, the rise of the University of California, the World War II shipyards, and contemporary demographics and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. First Settlers 2. A Tale of Two Towns 3. Enter the Octopus 4. Urbanization 5. A Special Place 6. Boom and Bust 7. World War II Watershed 8. A Kind of Peace 9. The Heritage of the Sixties 10. Berkeley in an Age of Inequality Bibliography Index
