Dominion from sea to sea : Pacific ascendancy and American power /

"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'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cumings, Bruce, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Civilization.
Economic history.
Historical geography.
International relations.
Diplomatic relations.
Territorial expansion.
Pacific States > History.
Pacific States > Civilization.
Pacific States > Economic conditions.
United States > Relations > Pacific Area.
Pacific Area > Relations > United States.
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Historical geography.
United States > Foreign relations.
United States > Colonial question.
États du Pacifique (États-Unis) > Histoire.
États du Pacifique (États-Unis) > Civilisation.
États du Pacifique (États-Unis) > Conditions économiques.
Pacifique, Région du > Relations > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures.
Pacific Area.
United States.
United States > Pacific States.
Pazifischer Raum
USA
USA.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I.A frontier of the mind. 1. The machine in the garden
  • 2. The remote beyond compare: finding California
  • - II. From sea to shining sea: manifest destiny. 3. A continent in five easy pieces
  • 4. Manifest destiny's offspring: gold, the continental railroad, Texas
  • 5. Abroad in search of Monsters to destroy
  • - III. Pacific states, New England peoples. 6. East to Eden: the Pacific Northwest
  • 7. Edens Lush and Frigid
  • 8. Pacific crossings: Asians in the United States
  • - IV. A crust of the earth: protean California. 9. A garden Cornucopia
  • 10. There it is. Take it: water and power
  • 11. Southern California: island and the Pacific
  • 12. The state as pretense of itself: developing the West
  • 13. Postwar California and the rise of Western republicanism
  • 14. In California's shadow: the rest of the West in the postwar era
  • 15. Archipelago of the empire: an American grid for the global garden
  • 16. Silicon Valley: a New World at the edge of the sea
  • 17. Conclusion: The American ascendancy.

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