The American Pacific: From the Old China Trade to the Present

by Arthur Power Dudden

Book Overview

In 1784, the United States was scarcely more than a strip of seaports, inland towns, and farms along the Atlantic coast--and already the China trade had begun, as the Empress of China sailed into Canton. From this small beginning, an American empire in the Pacific grew until it engulfed Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines, and hundreds of small islands. With World War II, U.S. power advanced further, into China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia--where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195085620
• ISBN13: 9780195085624
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"