Terminus: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire
Stuart Rollo, "Terminus: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire"
English | ISBN: 142144738X | 2023 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
English | ISBN: 142144738X | 2023 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
A sweeping narrative of America's imperial history and its long entanglement with China.
In Terminus, Stuart Rollo examines the origins and trajectory of American empire in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on its westward expansion and historic entanglement with China. American foreign and strategic policy in this region, Rollo argues, has always been shaped by broader economic and political concerns centered on China. China's current rise, and the economic and strategic systems that China is developing, represents the most serious challenge to the structure of American empire to date.
Rollo paints a sweeping historical narrative of American imperial history and its relationship with China from 1776 to the present. Grounded in archival research, official and personal correspondence, policy documents, declassified intelligence material, and congressional records,
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