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Book SynopsisA 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, Terminus traces the development of American empire building from the pre-independence period to the eve of World War I,
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Westward Expansion and the Commercial Origins of Empire
Chapter One. The Long March Westward and Native Dispossession
Chapter Two. The China Focus in Westward Expansion
Chapter Three. A Colonial Empire
Part II. Ascending Power to Unipolarity, 1914–1991
Chapter Four. The 30 Years Crisis
Chapter Five. American Hegemony
Chapter Six. War with Asia, Recession, and Resurgence
Part III. From a Unipolar Global Empire to a Shrinking Exploitative Hegemony
Chapter Seven. The Unipolar Moment and Imperial Hubris
Chapter Eight. The Sleeper Awakes: China's Rise as a World Historical Moment
Chapter Nine. Trump, Biden, and Trouble Ahead
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
