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.
With bewildering speed, the North Pacific region has come to
rival the North Atlantic as a global center of manufacturing, trade
and information, and the generation of wealth. The economic
statistics show that the Age of the Pacific has truly arrived.
Perry vividly shows that 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 promise 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.
Countless books have been written about American-East Asian
relations, but fewer books have addressed the importance of the
Pacific Ocean to the United States. No one before has shown so
comprehensively how Americans dominated the creation of
trans-Pacific trade routes. This book will be of great interest to
professional historians and the general public interested in the
history of American-Pacific relations, the history of
transportation, and the history of the entrepreneurial doers and
dreamers who spearheaded American commerce with Asia.
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