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  • The diplomacy of involvement = American economic expansion across the Pacific, 1784-1900 /
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    Title/Author: The diplomacy of involvement/ David M. Pletcher.
    Reminder of title: American economic expansion across the Pacific, 1784-1900 /
    Author: Pletcher, David M.
    Published: Columbia, Mo. :University of Missouri Press, : c2001.,
    Description: xi, 379 p. :maps ;25 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: Introduction -- I: THE PACIFIC AND THE FAR EAST AS FIELDS FOR EXPANSION, 1784-1890: The Chinese magnet and the Pacific distances -- Alaska: commercial gateway or dead end? -- Hawaii: sugar and strategy? -- The Southwest Pacific: illusion overcomes reality -- China I: four hundred million customers -- China II: the promoter's dream, the racist's nightmare -- Japan: the sincerest flattery -- Korea: the beginning of political involvement -- II: ECONOMIC EXPANSION BECOMES POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT, 1890-1900: The East Asia cockpit of the 1890s -- Contradictions in the Pacific -- The catalyst of war -- Unfinish business and new directions -- Conclusion: The diplomacy of involvement.
    Subject: Pacific Area - Foreign economic relations - United States. -
    Online resource: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=113872An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
    ISBN: 0826263534 (electronic bk.)
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