Dominion from Sea to Sea

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 power. He unites domestic and international history, international relations, and political economy to demonstrate how technological change and sharp economic growth have created a truly bicoastal national economy that has led the world for more than a century. Cumings emphasizes the importance of American encounters with Mexico, the Philippines, and the nations of East Asia. The result is a wonderfully integrative history that advances a strong argument for a dual approach to American history incorporating both Atlanticist and Pacificist perspectives.

ISBN 0300111886   Pages 608 ISBN13 9780300111880 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Yale University Press   Weight (grammes) 1084 Imprint Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Format Hardback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 20 Nov 2009   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress 2009018236   Spine width (mm) 40 DEWEY 979   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

Ch. 1		The Machine in the Garden		3
Ch. 2		"The Remote beyond Compare": Finding California		41
Ch. 3		A Continent in Five Easy Pieces		55
Ch. 4		Manifest Destiny's Offspring: Gold, the Continental Railroad, Texas		94
Ch. 5		Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy		126
Ch. 6		East of Eden: The Pacific Northwest		157
Ch. 7		Edens Lush and Frigid		175
Ch. 8		Pacific Crossings: Asians in the New States		197
Ch. 9		A Garden Cornucopia		219
Ch. 10		"There It Is. Take It": Water and Power		244
Ch. 11		Southern California: Island on the Pacific		264
Ch. 12		The State as Pretense of Itself: Developing the West		299
Ch. 13		Postwar California and the Rise of Western Republicanism		335
Ch. 14		In California's Shadow: The Rest of the West in the Postwar Era		363
Ch. 15		Archipelago of Empire: An American Grid for the Global Garden		388
Ch. 16		Silicon Valley: A New World at the Edge of the Sea		424
Ch. 17		Conclusion: The American Ascendancy		471
		Appendix		501
		Notes		515
		Bibliography		553
		Index		589

"Bruce Cumings, in this beautifully written book . . . presents consistently stunning analysis of a mountain of dascinating data."--James I./i>--James I. Matray "American Historical Review "

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