People's History of SFO (eBook)

The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport

Eric Porter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
304 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520977075 (ISBN)

Infos

An illuminating profile of the San Francisco Bay Area, and its regional and global influence, as seen from the focal point of San Francisco International Airport (SFO).A Peoples History of SFO uses the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to tell a multifaceted story of development, encounter, and power in the surrounding region from the eighteenth century to the present. In lively, engaging stories, Eric Porter reveals SFOs unique role in the San Francisco Bay Areas growth as a globally connected hub of commerce, technology innovation, and political, economic, and social influence. Starting with the very land SFO was built on, A Peoples History of SFO sees the airport as a microcosm of the forces at work in the Bay Areafrom its colonial history and early role in trade, mining, and agriculture to the economic growth, social sanctuary, and environmental transformations of the twentieth century. In ways both material and symbolic, small human acts have overlapped with evolving systems of power to create this bustling metropolis. A Peoples History of SFO ends by addressing the climate crisis, as sea levels rise and threaten SFO itself on the edge of San Francisco Bay.

Inhalt

Contents

Introduction: Three Views of SFO
1. Out of the Mud
2. Making San Francisco Airport
3. Of Fighting Planes and Flowers
4. A Black Future in the Air Industry?
5. The Politics of Jet Noise
6. Differing Degrees of Welcome
7. Sanctuary’s Gateway
8. Shoreline Futures

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Aircraft • airport • aviation • Bay Area • Boeing • California • climate crisis • Colonial • Construction • consumer • cross continental • Development • Flying • Global • Plane • San Francisco • Travel • Untold History • West Coast • world wide
• ISBN-13: 9780520977075 / 9780520977075