Gold Rush Port : The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront / James P Delgado; ed. by James P. Delgado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delgado, James P., Author.

Contributor:

Delgado, James P., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) : 22 b/w photographs, 9 line illustrations, 18 tables

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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 Franciscos Waterfront

7. Gold Rush Cargoes: Evidence of theWorld 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 18491851

Appendix 3: Cargo Stored As Merchandise aboard the General Harrison Storeship

Sources Consulted and Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9780520943346

OCLC:

1408681491