Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific

by John Curtis Perry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275949656
• ISBN13: 9780275949655
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"