Thus, in the case of Los Angeles—and in fact all the cities of the Pacific littoral from Seattle to Valparaiso to Yokohama—the ultimate battleground against the open shop was the harbor

Curzon arrived on a viceregal tour of the Persian Gulf so that he could claim the much-contested body of water and its littorals for Britain.

Like a vast inland of their own littoral, Dora was becoming an afflicted region, a source of abrupt conflagration.