Dominion from Sea to Sea Pacific Ascendancy and American Power 1st Edition by Bruce Cumings 0300111886 9780300111880

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ISBN 10: 0300111886

ISBN 13: 9780300111880

Author: Bruce Cumings

 

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s two largest oceans—the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America’s relationship with Europe. Bruce Cumings challenges the Atlanticist perspective in this innovative new history, arguing that relations with Asia influenced our history greatly.

Cumings chronicles how the movement westward, from the Middle West to the Pacific, has shaped America’s industrial, technological, military, and global rise to power. He unites domestic and international history, international relations, and political economy to demonstrate how technological change and sharp economic growth have created a truly bicoastal national economy that has led the world for more than a century. Cumings emphasizes the importance of American encounters with Mexico, the Philippines, and the nations of East Asia. The result is a wonderfully integrative history that advances a strong argument for a dual approach to American history incorporating both Atlanticist and Pacificist perspectives.

Dominion from Sea to Sea Pacific Ascendancy and American Power 1st  Table of contents:

I: A Frontier of the Mind

CHAPTER 1 The Machine in the Garden

CHAPTER 2 “The Remote beyond Compare”: Finding California

II: From Sea to Shining Sea: Manifest Destiny

CHAPTER 3 A Continent in Five Easy Pieces

CHAPTER 4 Manifest Destiny’s Offspring: Gold, the Continental Railroad, Texas

CHAPTER 5 Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy

III: Pacific States, New England Peoples

CHAPTER 6 East of Eden: The Pacific Northwest

CHAPTER 7 Edens Lush and Frigid

CHAPTER 8 Pacific Crossings: Asians in the New States

IV: “A Crust of the Earth”: Protean California

CHAPTER 9 A Garden Cornucopia

CHAPTER 10 “There It Is. Take It”: Water and Power

CHAPTER 11 Southern California: Island on the Pacific

V: A Tipping Point

CHAPTER 12 The State as Pretense of Itself: Developing the West

CHAPTER 13 Postwar California and the Rise of Western Republicanism

CHAPTER 14 In California’s Shadow: The Rest of the West in the Postwar Era

CHAPTER 15 Archipelago of Empire: An American Grid for the Global Garden

CHAPTER 16 Silicon Valley: A New World at the Edge of the Sea

CHAPTER 17 Conclusion: The American Ascendancy

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