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American Pacific: from the old China trade to the present
The book provides a sweeping account of how the U.S. built (and lost) a vast empire in the acean off our west coast. Opening with a fascinating account of the early China trade, the book provides a region-by-region history of the Pacific basin. What emerges is the story of how American commercial interests evolved into territorial ambitions, with the acquisitions of Alaska, Hawaii, and Philippines, and finally into far-reaching efforts to project American power onto the shores of mainland Asia. The book's vivid narrative teems with the dynamic individuals who shaped events: William Seward, the Senator and Lincoln's Secretary of State who was driven by a vision of American dominion in the Pacific; kamehameha I, the Hawaiian conqueror who tried to bring his kingdom into the modern word; William Howard Taft, who as the first governor-general of the Philippines built the institutions of American rule; Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Japan's attacks on Pearl Harbor and Midway Island; and of course Generl Douglas MacArthur, whose immensely influential career spanned supreme command of the pre-war Philippine army, the Allied occupation forces in Japan, and the U.N. forces in Korea. The book brings the story up to date, reviewing the war in VietNam, the aftermath of Tiananmen Square, the triumph of the Pacific rim economies, and the tremedous impact of Asian immigration on American society
pacific areas - history,pacific areas - relations - united states