Dominion from Sea to Sea : Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

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ISBN: 9780300168006 | 0300168004
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 9/28/2010

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Being bordered by the world's two largest oceans gives America a competitive advantage that is often overlooked by historians focused primarily on the Atlantic and the country's relationship with Europe. Bruce Cumings boldly challenges this perspective, arguing for a dual approach to American history that equally incorporates both Atlanticist and Pacificist perspectives. Book jacket.

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
A Frontier of the Mind
The Machine in the Garden	p. 3
"The Remote beyond Compare": Finding California	p. 41
From Sea to Shining Sea: Manifest Destiny
A Continent in Five Easy Pieces	p. 55
Manifest Destiny's Offspring: Gold, the Continental Railroad, Texas	p. 94
Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy	p. 126
Pacific States, New England Peoples
East of Eden: The Pacific Northwest	p. 157
Edens Lush and Frigid	p. 175
Pacific Crossings: Asians in the New States	p. 197
"A Crust of the Earth": Protean California
A Garden Cornucopia	p. 219
"There It is. Take it": Water and Power	p. 244
Southern California: Island on the Pacific	p. 264
A Tipping Point
The State as Pretense of Itself: Developing the West	p. 299
Postwar California and the Rise of Western Republicanism	p. 335
In California's Shadow: The Rest of the West in the Postwar Era	p. 363
Archipelago of Empire: An American Grid for the Global Garden	p. 388
Silicon Valley: A New World at the Edge of the Sea	p. 424
Conclusion: The American Ascendancy	p. 471
Appendix	p. 501
Notes	p. 515
Bibliography	p. 553
Index	p. 589
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