Facing West Americans and the Opening of the Pacific

Name: Facing West Americans and the Opening of the Pacific
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ISBN: 9780275949655

ISBN-10: 0275949656

ISBN-13: 9780275949655

Edition: 1994

Authors: John C. Perry

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With bewildering speed, the North Pacific region has come to rival the North Atlantic as a global center of manufacturing, trade and information, and the generation of wealth. The economic statistics show that the "Age of the Pacific" has truly arrived. Perry vividly shows that from the early years of the republic many Americans anticipated a Pacific Age in world affairs that the United States would inevitably dominate, not in a territorial sense so much as in a cultural and commercial one. Despite the reality that Asia was of little real economic importance in American life until recently, a powerful image persisted in the American mind of the promise of riches to be found across the…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/22/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface


The Cruel Pacific: A Prologue Opening the Great Ocean


Captain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard "To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844


The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth? Searching for Something to Sell Science and Shipping Whitening the Seas, 1844-1869


Pushing Out Pacific Frontiers The Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle Route Americans in Far Pacific Waters


Expeditions Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Entrepreneurs The Russian Connection Girdling the Earth, 1869-1914


Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime Decline


The Great Transcontinental Pacific Railroads William Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan Railway Steamships on Schedule


The Pacific Mail Railroad Titans and the Beringian Route to Asia


Grasping the Western Pacific Theodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama Canal Conquering the Skies, 1914-1941


World War I and Pacific Transport The Early Air Age


The Zeppelin: First Over the Pacific Juan Trippe and Pan American


"North to the Orient" China Clipper War, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945


War Challenges Pacific Transport New Routes and New Frontiers Flying to Russia America, the New Global Hub?


The Collapse of the American Merchant Marine A New Northwest Passage


The Jet Revolution and American Leadership Splendid Fantasies


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index