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  title info:
    title: Terminus
    sub title: westward expansion, China, and the end of American empire
  title info:
    title: Westward expansion, China, and the end of American empire
  name:
    name part: Rollo, Stuart
    name part: 1987-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 281 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "A new interpretation of how American foreign and strategic policy has, from the time of the Revolution, been shaped by economic and political concerns about China"--
  abstract: "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 correspondences, 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, arguing that this new empire was primarily driven by commercial interests in China. Rollo explores shifts in global power, resource politics, and international economic structures that led the United States to transition from one of several imperial powers to the world's sole superpower by the last decade of the twentieth century. Finally, he examines the decline of American empire since its brief period of unipolarity in the 1990s, explaining the new pressures and challenges posed by the rise of China. Rollo proposes three scenarios for how the United States might manage its inevitable imperial decline: a vain attempt to shore up and extend the empire, an exploitative hegemony, or a post-imperial foreign policy. This last option would work to repair the damaged fabric of American social and political life, providing a long-term, stable foundation for national security, prosperity, and the well-being of its citizens. All empires eventually end, but with the benefit of hindsight, Rollo ur…
  table of contents: Introduction- The long march westward and native dispossession -- The China focus in westward expansion -- A colonial empire -- The 30 years crisis -- American hegemony -- War with Asia, recession, and resurgence -- The unipolar moment and imperial hubris -- The sleeper awakes : China's rise as a world historical moment -- Trump, Biden, and trouble ahead -- Conclusion.
  note: Stuart Rollo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Territorial expansion
  subject:
    topic: Hegemony
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Relations extérieures
    geographic: Chine
  subject:
    geographic: Chine
    topic: Relations extérieures
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Expansion territoriale
  subject:
    topic: Hégémonie
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
  classification: E183.8.C5 R564 2023
  classification: 327.73051
  classification: HIS036060 POL011000
  identifier: 9781421447384
  identifier: 142144738X
  identifier: 9781421447391
  identifier: 2022059601
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: LBSOR
    record creation date: 230402
    record change date: 20250318213332.2
    record identifier: in00004771106
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng