About this title: As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. "American Babylon" tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. Robert Self shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over land, jobs, taxes, ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: PRESUMED FIRST EDITION, due to "1" in number line.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780691070261ISBN:0691070261
Description: New in new dust jacket. NEW condition book and NEW condition dust jacket. First edition. Photograph is accurate for this listing. Hardback w/dust jacket, Three Parts, 8 Chapters, 29 Figures, 11 Maps, other back material + Index. 386 pages. This is an EXTRAORDINARILY THOROUGH study of Oakland, California, by a highly regarded scholar. From the back cover: This book "promises to be one of those rare works that redefines the field....new conception of postwar urban history and also of national ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780691124865ISBN:0691124868
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 408 p. Contains: Illustrations. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780691070261ISBN:0691070261
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Third printing. A scholarly study of racial struggle and progrees in Califonia during the mid-20th century. Illustrated with charts/graphs, B&W photos. Extensive Notes. Unread, as new in like DJ. 386 pp. read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780691070261ISBN:0691070261
Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 408 p. Contains: Illustrations. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780691124865ISBN:0691124868
Description: New. "American Babylon" traces the dialectic of suburbanization and black power in my hometown of Oakland, California. Encapsulating the postwar history of hundreds of mid-sized American cities, Robert Self's original and fascinating case study historici... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780691124865ISBN:0691124868
Description: Traces both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics. This work shows that racial inequities in both New Deal and Great Society liberalism precipitated local struggles over... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:9780691124865ISBN:0691124868
Description: Good. 0691124868 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2003
Description: Hard cover Very good in very good dust jacket. Remainder mark. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 408 p. Contains: Illustrations. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. Audience: General/trade. read more
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