Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific Book

From the early years of the republic, many Americans anticipated a Pacific Age in world affairs that the United States would inevitably dominate, not in a territorial sense so much as in a cultural and commercial one. Despite the reality that Asia was of little real economic importance in American life until recently, a powerful image persisted in the American mind of the promises of riches to be found across the Pacific. This book provides the history of that dream, from the time of Spanish galleons to the hypersonic airplane of the future.Read More

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  • 0275949656
  • 9780275949655
  • John Curtis Perry
  • 30 November 1994
  • Greenwood Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
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