The Gateway to the Pacific

The Gateway to the Pacific
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 293
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226592749
ISBN-13 : 022659274X
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Gateway to the Pacific by : Meredith Oda

Download or read book The Gateway to the Pacific written by Meredith Oda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.


The Gateway to the Pacific Related Books

The SE Asian Gateway
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Robert Hall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Geological Society of London

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Collision between Australia and SE Asia began in the Early Miocene and reduced the former wide ocean between them to a complex passage which connects the Pacifi
Major League Winners
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Mark S. Rosentraub
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-28 - Publisher: CRC Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Major League Winners: Using Sports and Cultural Centers as Tools for Economic Development chronicles the challenges overcome by civic leaders who are using the
Computerworld
Language: en
Pages: 88
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-12-22 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning
Improving Teaching, Learning, Equity, and Success in Gateway Courses
Language: en
Pages: 121
Authors: Andrew K. Koch
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-22 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

As long as there have been U. S. colleges and universities, there have been entry courses that pose difficulties for students – courses that have served more
Banking on Change
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: David Porteous
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Tells the tale of ten years of experiment and innovation in a crucial economic arena: making financial markets work for the poor. Describing the state of access