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The United States and the Pacific : history of a frontier
Etats-Unis et la pacifique. English
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- Creator
- Jean Heffer ; translated by W. Donald Wilson
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- English
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- English language edition
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2002]
- ©2002
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- xii, 510 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780268043087, 0268043086
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- ocm48376161
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-500) and index.
- Introduction: The Pacific as a Frontier -- Pt. I. The Great Frontier (1784-1867). 1. The Chinese Magnet. Direct Sino-American Trade. Indirect Relations. Other Trade Directions. American Commercial Activity in the Pacific. 2. The Whalers' Pacific. Hunting the Leviathan. The Voyages of the Logoda. American Whalers and the Pacific. 3. Ambition and Modesty. The Principles of American Policy. The Two Naval Stations. Dreams of Empire. 4. Cultures in Collision. Discovering the Other. A Protestant Mission Field -- Pt. II. Toward Maturity (1868-1941). 5. More Intensive Economic Relations. A New Commercial Geography. Ways and Means of Communication. American Investment in the Pacific. 6. Closer Cultural Contacts. The Americans, Agents of Modernization. Evangelizing the Pacific in a Single Generation. Danger from the West? 7. Imperialism and the Open Door. The Conquest of Empire. The Reluctant Colonialist. The Open Door. 8. The Pacific Problem. The United States, Japan, and the Others. Storms and a Brighter Spell (1906-1931). Planning for a Pacific War. Was Conflict Inevitable? -- Pt. III. The "American Lake" (1941-1994). 9. War in the Pacific. The Japanese Objectives. The Pacific in American Strategy. From Defeat to Victory. Cultural Aspects of the Pacific War. 10. Stormy Waters. The Free World vs. the Communist Bloc (1945-1972). The Strategic Triangle (1972-1988). The End of the Cold War. 11. The Great Economic Transformation. Growing Trade and a Worsening Trade Balance. The Economic Organization of the Pacific. Tensions. 12. Toward Cultural Symbiosis? The Americanization of the Pacific. Resistance to Americanization. Open Arms for the Pacific! -- Epilogue: The United States and the Pacific in the Twenty-first Century