Review: Port of Los Angeles: Conflict, Commerce, and the Fight for Control, by Geraldine Knatz

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Book Review| May 01 2021 Review: Port of Los Angeles: Conflict, Commerce, and the Fight for Control, by Geraldine Knatz Port of Los Angeles: Conflict, Commerce, and the Fight for Control. By Geraldine Knatz (Santa Monica: Angel City Press, 2019, 320 pp., $66.00 hardcover). James Tejani James Tejani James Tejani is an associate professor of history at Cal Poly. He is revising his dissertation, “San Pedro Bay and the Making of an American Pacific: Private Enterprise, State Imperatives, and the Industrialization of Natural Resources, 1846-1917,” for publication. The project examines the creation of the Port of Los Angeles through the transformation of nature, property relations, and local entrepreneurial practices and in the collision of unfettered capitalist economy with the rising power of federal and municipal bureaucracies in the West Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (2021) 103 (2): 261–263. https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2021.103.2.261 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Tejani; Review: Port of Los Angeles: Conflict, Commerce, and the Fight for Control, by Geraldine Knatz. Southern California Quarterly 1 May 2021; 103 (2): 261–263. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2021.103.2.261 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2021 by The Historical Society of Southern California. All rights reserved.2021 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.