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Dominion from Sea to Sea
Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

Bruce Cumings

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s two largest oceans—the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America’s relationship with Europe. Bruce Cumings challenges the Atlanticist perspective in this innovative new history, arguing that relations with Asia influenced our history greatly.

 

Cumings chronicles how the movement westward, from the Middle West to the Pacific, has shaped America’s industrial, technological, military, and global rise to ...


2009   672 pp.  21 b/w & 13 color illus.   -   Cloth ISBN: 9780300111880  $38.00
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