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- Title
DOMESTICATING DIPLOMACY: AMERICA'S EARLY PACIFIC RAILROAD VISIONS, 1820-1850.
- Authors
GONG, CEDAR Y.
- Abstract
This paper argues that early Pacific railroad visionaries, working between 1820 and 1850, served to assert American independence from Britain and to consolidate American imperial design. Rather than seeing railroad expansion as merely a consequence of Manifest Destiny, this essay suggests that a struggle for access to markets in China and Asia, operating within the framework of rivalry with the British Empire, was crucial to American westward expansion. It thus concludes that the transpacific turn in American culture has a long provenance.
- Subjects
DIPLOMACY; PACIFIC railroads; MANIFEST destiny (U.S.); BRITISH colonies; ANTI-imperialist movements
- Publication
Australasian Journal of American Studies, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1838-9554
- Publication type
Essay