{"product_id":"terminus-9781421447384","title":"Terminus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Westward Expansion and the Commercial Origins of Empire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One. The Long March Westward and Native Dispossession\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two. The China Focus in Westward Expansion\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three. A Colonial Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Ascending Power to Unipolarity, 1914–1991\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four. The 30 Years Crisis\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five. American Hegemony\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six. War with Asia, Recession, and Resurgence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. From a Unipolar Global Empire to a Shrinking Exploitative Hegemony\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven. The Unipolar Moment and Imperial Hubris\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight. The Sleeper Awakes: China's Rise as a World Historical Moment\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine. Trump, Biden, and Trouble Ahead\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408150470999,"sku":"9781421447384","price":39.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421447384.jpg?v=1730501774","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/terminus-9781421447384","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}