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Described as a "forest of masts," San Francisco's Gold Rush waterfront was a floating economy of ships and wharves, where a dazzling array of global goods was traded and transported. Drawing on excavations in buried ships and collapsed buildings from this period, James P. Delgado re-creates San Francisco's unique maritime landscape, shedding new light on the city's remarkable rise from a small village to a boomtown of thousands in the three short years from 1848 to 1851. Gleaning history from artifacts—preserves and liquors in bottles, leather boots and jackets, hulls of ships, even crocks of butter lying alongside discarded guns—Gold Rush Port paints a fascinating picture of how ships and global connections created the port and the city of San Francisco. Setting the city's history into the wider web of international relationships, Delgado reshapes our understanding of developments in the Pacific that led to a world system of trading.
Price: $50.95
Pages: 256
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
04 March 2009
ISBN: 9780520943346
Format: eBook
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Perspective
3. Global Maritime Connections in the Pacific before the Gold Rush
4. Development of the Gold Rush San Francisco Waterfront
5. The Commission Merchants
6. The Archaeology of Gold Rush San Francisco's Waterfront
7. Gold Rush Cargoes: Evidence of the World Maritime System
8. San Francisco and the Nineteenth-Century World Maritime System
Appendix 1: Commission Merchant Business Cards from the Supplemental Daily Alta California, October 4, 1849
Appendix 2: The "Representative Storeship" of 1849-1851
Appendix 3: Cargo Stored As Merchandise aboard the General Harrison Storeship
Sources Consulted and Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Perspective
3. Global Maritime Connections in the Pacific before the Gold Rush
4. Development of the Gold Rush San Francisco Waterfront
5. The Commission Merchants
6. The Archaeology of Gold Rush San Francisco's Waterfront
7. Gold Rush Cargoes: Evidence of the World Maritime System
8. San Francisco and the Nineteenth-Century World Maritime System
Appendix 1: Commission Merchant Business Cards from the Supplemental Daily Alta California, October 4, 1849
Appendix 2: The "Representative Storeship" of 1849-1851
Appendix 3: Cargo Stored As Merchandise aboard the General Harrison Storeship
Sources Consulted and Cited
Index