从海到海的支配权。太平洋崛起与美国权力

 从海到海的支配权。太平洋崛起与美国权力

布鲁斯-库明斯

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美国是第一个居住在两端向世界两大海洋--大西洋和太平洋--开放的巨大陆地上的世界大国。

这给美国带来了巨大的竞争优势，而这一优势往往被大西洋主义者所忽视，他们的关注点仍然绝大部分固定在美国与欧洲的关系上。

布鲁斯-库明斯在这部创新的新历史中挑战了大西洋主义者的观点，认为与亚洲的关系极大地影响了我们的历史。

 

库明斯记录了从中西部到太平洋的西进运动如何塑造了美国的工业、技术、军事和全球力量的崛起。

他将国内和国际历史、国际关系和政治经济学结合起来，展示了技术变革和急剧的经济增长如何创造了一个真正的两岸国民经济，并在一个多世纪里引领世界。

库明斯强调了美国与墨西哥、菲律宾和东亚国家相遇的重要性。其结果是一部精彩的综合历史，为美国历史的双重方法提供了强有力的论据，其中包括大西洋主义者和太平洋主义者的观点。

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Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

Bruce Cumings

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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.

(20100201)