A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles- And America - Rilegato

Tejani, James

 
9781324093558: A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles- And America
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ISBN 10: 1324093552 ISBN 13: 9781324093558
Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2024

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A Machine to Move Ocean and EarthBy 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.A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth

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Editore
W W Norton & Co Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1324093552
ISBN 13 
9781324093558
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
450
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