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The diplomacy of involvement : American economic expansion across the Pacific, 1784-1900 /
Annotation Like its predecessor, this important new work is focused on the connection between trade and investment on the one hand and U.S. foreign policy on the other. David Pletcher describes the trade of the United States with the Far East, the islands of the Pacific, and the northwest coast of N...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Columbia, Mo. :
University of Missouri Press,
©2001.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I: THE PACIFIC AND THE FAR EAST AS FIELDS FOR EXPANSION, 1784-1890: The Chinese magnet and the Pacific distances
- Alaska: commercial gateway or dead end?
- Hawaii: sugar and strategy?
- The Southwest Pacific: illusion overcomes reality
- China I: four hundred million customers
- China II: the promoter's dream, the racist's nightmare
- Japan: the sincerest flattery
- Korea: the beginning of political involvement
- II: ECONOMIC EXPANSION BECOMES POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT, 1890-1900: The East Asia cockpit of the 1890s
- Contradictions in the Pacific
- The catalyst of war
- Unfinish business and new directions
- Conclusion: The diplomacy of involvement.