Empire on the Pacific
A Study in American Continental Expansion
Erschienen am 12. Dezember 2018
249 Seiten
978-1-78912-810-9 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
In this stimulating volume, which was originally published in 1955, Professor Norman A. Graebner argues that historians have exaggerated the role played by the spirit of manifest destiny in the expansionism of the 1840s. In his view, neither the overland migrations nor eastern public opinion had any direct bearing on the diplomacy that won Oregon and California for the United States. Instead, the principal objective of every statesman from Jackson on was maritime: the acquisition of the harbors at San Diego, San Francisco, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca as gateways to the trade of the Orient. "Land was necessary to them merely as a right of way to ocean ports-a barrier to be spanned by improved avenues of commerce." This diplomacy reached a climax under Polk and triumphed with the Trist mission and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, giving America "its empire on the Pacific." It is upon this premise that Professor Graebner has built a reinterpretation of the diplomacy of the 1840s.
An invaluable addition to any American History library.
An invaluable addition to any American History library.
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Inhalt
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1-THE EXPANSIONIST SETTING: 1844
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- Chapter 2-NORTH FROM THE COLUMBIA
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- Chapter 3-SOUTH OF FORTY-TWO
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- Chapter 4-INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY FOR THE BAY
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- Chapter 5-"WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE"
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- Chapter 6-POLK AND THE PACIFIC
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- Chapter 7-ACQUISITION OF THE STRAIT
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- §6
- Chapter 8-WAR AIMS
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- Chapter 9-WARTIME POLITICS AND EXPANSION
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- Chapter 10-THE TRIST MISSION
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- §5
- §6
- Chapter 11-EMPIRE ON THE PACIFIC
- §1
- §2
- §3
- §4
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER
