San Diego's Postwar Future

San Diego's Postwar Future
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business
Publisher:
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1947
Genre: San Diego (Calif.)
ISBN:

Under the Perfect Sun

Under the Perfect Sun
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781565849808

An anti-tourist guide that debunks San Diego's sunshine myth for locals and visitors alike. For fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart. But America's eighth-largest city has a dark side. Behind Sea World, the zoo, the Gaslamp District, and the beaches of La Jolla hides a militarized metropolis, boasting the West Coast's most stratified economy and a tumultuous history of municipal corruption, virulent antiunionism, political repression, and racial injustice. Though its boosters tirelessly propagate an image of a carefree beach town, the real San Diego shares dreams and nightmares with its violent twin, Tijuana. This alternative civic history deconstructs the mythology of "America's finest city." Acclaimed urban theorist Mike Davis documents the secret history of the domineering elites who have turned a weak city government into a powerful machine for private wealth. Jim Miller tells the story from the other side: chronicling the history of protest in San Diego from the Wobblies to today's "globalphobics." Kelly Mayhew, meanwhile, presents the voice of paradise's forgotten working people and new immigrants. The texts are vividly enhanced by Fred Lonidier's photographs.

The Plan de San Diego

The Plan de San Diego
Author: Charles H. Harris
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0803264771

The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of the Mexican Revolution. The plan called for an insurrection of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and African Americans in support of the Mexican Revolution and the waging of a genocidal war against Anglos. The resulting violence approached a race war and has usually been portrayed as a Hispanic struggle for liberation brutally crushed by the Texas Rangers, among others. The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue, based on newly available archival documents, is a revisionist interpretation focusing on both south Texas and Mexico. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler argue convincingly that the insurrection in Texas was made possible by support from Mexico when it suited the regime of President Venustiano Carranza, who co-opted and manipulated the plan and its supporters for his own political and diplomatic purposes in support of the Mexican Revolution. The study examines the papers of Augustine Garza, a leading promoter of the plan, as well as recently released and hitherto unexamined archival material from the Federal Bureau of Investigation documenting the day-to-day events of the conflict.

Post-war Planning, No. 2

Post-war Planning, No. 2
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 774
Release: 1944
Genre: Public works
ISBN:

Future of Independent Business

Future of Independent Business
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1947
Genre: Business
ISBN:

Fortress California, 1910-1961

Fortress California, 1910-1961
Author: Roger W. Lotchin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252071034

Fortress California, now in paperback for the first time, links the growth of the U.S. military-industrial complex to civic leaders who competed for military bases and military contracts to ensure economic growth. Analyzing the growth of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco from 1910 to 1961, Roger W. Lotchin discredits the assumption that the industrialization of the Sunbelt was a result of a partnership between industry and the military. He provides instead a detailed and forceful argument that municipalities used federal resources to build urban empires and metropolitan-military complexes. These have increased the flow of federal dollars into the state, thereby shifting the focus of the military-industrial complex from warfare to welfare.