Dominion from Sea to Sea : Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

by Bruce Cumings

• ISBN13: 9780300168006
• ISBN10: 0300168004
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-09-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Bruce Cumings is chair of the History Department at the University of Chicago and author of the award-winning book The Origins of the Korean War.

Table of Contents

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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