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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: machine to move ocean and Earth
    sub title: the making of the port of Los Angeles--and America
  name:
    name part: Tejani, James
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it, furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisphere, it claims one-sixth of all US ocean shipping. Yet despite its centrality to our world, the port and the story of its making have been neglected in histories of the United States. In A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth, historian James Tejani corrects that significant omission, charting the port's rise out of the mud and salt marsh of San Pedro estuary and showing how the story of the port is the story of modern, globalized America itself. By the mid-nineteenth century, Americans had identified the West Coast as the republic's destiny, a gateway to the riches of the Pacific. In a narrative spanning decades and stretching to Washington, DC, the Pacific Northwest, Civil War Richmond, Southwest deserts and even overseas to Europe, Hawaii and Asia, Tejani demonstrates how San Pedro came to be seen as all-important to the nation's future. It was not virgin land, but dominated by powerful Mexican estates that would not be dislodged easily. Yet American scientists, including the great surveyor George Davidson, imperialist politicians such as Jefferson Davis and William Gwin and hopeful land speculators, among them the future Union Army general Edward Ord, would wrest control of the estuary and set the scene for the violence, inequality and engineering marvels to come. San Pedro was no place for a harbor, Tejani reveals. The port was carved in defiance of nature, using new engineering techniques and massive mechanical dredgers. Business titans such as Collis Huntington and Edward H. Harriman brought their money and corporate influence to the task. But they were outmatched by government reformers, laying the foundations for the port, for the modern city of Los Angeles and for our globalized world. Interweaving the natural history of San Pedro into this all-too-human history, T…
  note: James Tejani.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Port of Los Angeles
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Container terminals
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Bays
    geographic: California
  subject:
    topic: Estuaries
    geographic: California
  subject:
    geographic: San Pedro Bay (Calif. : Bay)
  classification: HE554.L7 T45 2024
  classification: 387.109794/94
  identifier: 9781324093558
  identifier: 1324093552
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230923
    record change date: 20241014132402.7
    record identifier: in00005374751