Yankees in Paradise : The Pacific Basin Frontier

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. 6" wide by 9" tall. Bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy. No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Well illustrated with 46 pages of maps and historic prints. Among the chapters are: Pioneer Explorers, The Yankee Advent, The Maritime Fur Frontier, Pacific Basin Whalers as Frontiersmen, The Military Frontier, etc. From the rear cover: "Yankees in Paradise reinterprets America's imperial expansion by introducing the maritime frontier and comparing it to continental settlement. In the 1780s, as the newly independent United States began to settle lands west of the thirteen colonies, it also began to explore another frontier - the Pacific Ocean. The new republic desperately needed markets to offset loss of trade with Europe and the Caribbean. In 1784 the Boston-based Empress of China sailed into Canton, signaling the opening of a route that eventually generated immense profits and established America's interests in the Pacific... In the nineteenth century, as expanded across the North American continent, it also established commercial, military, and cultural hegemony in much of the Pacific. The symbol of America's presence there was the clipper ship, but the agents of expansion were the same, whether on land or at sea: explorers, hunters and fur traders, merchants, miners, farmers, missionaries, the military, and writers. Each group is carefully considered in this sweeping narrative history." A volume in the Histories of the American Frontier series. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. xii, 495pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.