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- catalog contributor b7242377.
- catalog coverage "Pacific Area Commerce United States History.".
- catalog coverage "Pacific Area Foreign economic relations United States.".
- catalog coverage "United States Commerce Pacific Area History.".
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign economic relations Pacific Area.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-360) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. The Cruel Pacific: A Prologue. 1. Opening the Great Ocean. 2. Captain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard -- pt. II. "To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844. 3. The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth? 4. Searching for Something to Sell. 5. Science and Shipping -- pt. III. Whitening the Seas, 1844-1869. 6. Pushing Out Pacific Frontiers. 7. The Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle Route. 8. Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Expeditions. 9. Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Entrepreneurs. 10. The Russian Connection -- pt. IV. Girdling the Earth, 1869-1914. 11. Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime Decline. 12. The Great Transcontinental Pacific Railroads. 13. William Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan Railway. 14. Steamships on Schedule: The Pacific Mail. 15. Railroad Titans and the Beringian Route to Asia. 16. Grasping the Western Pacific. 17. Theodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama Canal -- pt. V. Conquering the Skies, 1914-1941. 18. World War I and Pacific Transport. 19. The Early Air Age. 20. The Zeppelin: First Over the Pacific. 21. Juan Trippe and Pan American. 22. "North to the Orient" 23. China Clipper -- pt. VI. War, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945. 24. War Challenges Pacific Transport. 25. New Routes and New Frontiers. 26. Flying to Russia -- pt. VII. America, the New Global Hub? 27. The Collapse of the American Merchant Marine. 28. A New Northwest Passage. 29. The Jet Revolution and American Leadership. 30. Splendid Fantasies.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 367 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Facing West.".
- catalog identifier "0275949206 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0275949656 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Facing West.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Praeger,".
- catalog relation "Facing West.".
- catalog spatial "Pacific Area Commerce United States History.".
- catalog spatial "Pacific Area Foreign economic relations United States.".
- catalog spatial "United States Commerce Pacific Area History.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign economic relations Pacific Area.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "382/.097309 20".
- catalog subject "HF3043 .P48 1994".
- catalog subject "Merchant marine United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. The Cruel Pacific: A Prologue. 1. Opening the Great Ocean. 2. Captain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard -- pt. II. "To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844. 3. The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth? 4. Searching for Something to Sell. 5. Science and Shipping -- pt. III. Whitening the Seas, 1844-1869. 6. Pushing Out Pacific Frontiers. 7. The Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle Route. 8. Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Expeditions. 9. Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Entrepreneurs. 10. The Russian Connection -- pt. IV. Girdling the Earth, 1869-1914. 11. Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime Decline. 12. The Great Transcontinental Pacific Railroads. 13. William Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan Railway. 14. Steamships on Schedule: The Pacific Mail. 15. Railroad Titans and the Beringian Route to Asia. 16. Grasping the Western Pacific. 17. Theodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama Canal -- pt. V. Conquering the Skies, 1914-1941. 18. World War I and Pacific Transport. 19. The Early Air Age. 20. The Zeppelin: First Over the Pacific. 21. Juan Trippe and Pan American. 22. "North to the Orient" 23. China Clipper -- pt. VI. War, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945. 24. War Challenges Pacific Transport. 25. New Routes and New Frontiers. 26. Flying to Russia -- pt. VII. America, the New Global Hub? 27. The Collapse of the American Merchant Marine. 28. A New Northwest Passage. 29. The Jet Revolution and American Leadership. 30. Splendid Fantasies.".
- catalog title "Facing West : Americans and the opening of the Pacific / John Curtis Perry.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".