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

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