American empire in the Pacific : from trade to strategic balance, 1700-1922 / edited by Arthur Power Dudden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dudden, Arthur Power, 1921-2009.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Pacific world ; v. 9.

The Pacific world ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

International relations.

Pacific Area--Foreign relations--United States.

Pacific Area.

United States--Foreign relations--Pacific Area.

United States.

Imperialism.

Pacific Area--History.

United States--History--Philosophy.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xl, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, [2004]

Contents:

Part 1 The American Republic Enters World History

1 The English Background of American Isolationism in the Eighteenth Century / Felix Gilbert 1

2 Chinese Export Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Tidewater Virginia / Julia B. Curtis 25

Part 2 Westward Destiny

3 Strategies for Finding the Northwest Passage: The Roles of Alexander Mackenzie and Meriwether Lewis / Gunther Barth 51

4 The Legacy of Old Canton / Jacques M. Downs 65

5 American Continentalism: An Idea of Expansion, 1845-1910 / Charles Vevier 91

6 James Polk / Norman A. Graebner 105

7 Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Precursor of the Steam Navy / John H. Schroeder 131

8 The Sale of Alaska in the Context of Russian American Relations in the Nineteenth Century / N.N. Bolkhovitinov 155

Part 3 Spreadeagle Imperialism

9 The Independent Minister: John M.B. Sill and the Struggle against Japanese Expansion in Korea, 1894-1897 / Jeffery M. Dorwart 171

10 Assessing Public Opinion: Editorial Comment and the Annexation of Hawaii

A Case Study / George F. Pearce 189

11 The American Remission of the Boxer Indemnity: A Reappraisal / Michael H. Hunt 207

12 The Panama Canal and Sea Power in the Pacific / Alfred Thayer Mahan 229

13 Protestant Missionaries and American Colonialism in the Philippines, 1899-1916: Attitudes, Perceptions, Involvement / Kenton J. Clymer 255

Part 4 World War and Treaty Making

14 Wilsonian Idealism and Japanese Claims at the Paris Peace Conference / Noriko Kawamura 297

15 American Intervention in Russia: The North Russian Expedition, 1918-1919 / John W. Long 321

16 Look Back in Anger: The Western Powers and the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 / Malcolm H. Murfett 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0754630498

OCLC:

52288741