Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

by Bruce Cumings

Book Overview

From the author of The Origins of the Korean War, this book "faces West" to focus on the importance of the Pacific Coast in a boldly original reinterpretation of the American ascendency.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300168004
• ISBN13: 9780300168006
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 9.1"