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Gold rush port : the maritime archaeology of San Francisco's waterfront

Title
Gold rush port : the maritime archaeology of San Francisco's waterfront / James P. Delgado.
Author
Delgado, James P.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009], ©2009.

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xiv, 238 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
"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 goods was traded, transported from around the globe to this port city. Drawing on excavations of buried ships and collapsed buildings from this period, James P. Delgado recreates 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-227) and index.
Contents
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 -- App. 1. Commission Merchant Business Cards from the Supplemental Daily Alta California, October 4, 1849 -- App. 2. The "Representative Storeship" of 1849-1851 -- App. 3. Cargo Stored As Merchandise aboard the General Harrison Storeship.
ISBN
  • 9780520255807 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520255801 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008034388
  • 40016540880
OCLC
  • ocn244177123
  • 244177123
  • SCSB-5464378
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Columbia University Libraries