JOHN CURTIS PERRY is Henry Willard Denison Professor of History and Director, North Pacific Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. In 1991 the Japanese government awarded an imperial decoration, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, to Perry for extraordinary contributions to American-Japanese relations.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceThe Cruel Pacific: A PrologueOpening the Great OceanCaptain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard"To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth?Searching for Something to SellScience and ShippingWhitening the Seas, 1844-1869Pushing Out Pacific FrontiersThe Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle RouteAmericans in Far Pacific Waters: ExpeditionsAmericans in Far Pacific Waters: EntrepreneursThe Russian ConnectionGirdling the Earth, 1869-1914Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime DeclineThe Great Transcontinental Pacific RailroadsWilliam Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan RailwaySteamships on Schedule: The Pacific MailRailroad Titans and the Beringian Route to AsiaGrasping the Western PacificTheodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama CanalConquering the Skies, 1914-1941World War I and Pacific TransportThe Early Air AgeThe Zeppelin: First Over the PacificJuan Trippe and Pan American"North to the Orient"China ClipperWar, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945War Challenges Pacific TransportNew Routes and New FrontiersFlying to RussiaAmerica, the New Global Hub?The Collapse of the American Merchant MarineA New Northwest PassageThe Jet Revolution and American LeadershipSplendid FantasiesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

JOHN CURTIS PERRY is Henry Willard Denison Professor of History and Director, North Pacific Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. In 1991 the Japanese government awarded an imperial decoration, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, to Perry for extraordinary contributions to American-Japanese relations.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceThe Cruel Pacific: A PrologueOpening the Great OceanCaptain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard"To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth?Searching for Something to SellScience and ShippingWhitening the Seas, 1844-1869Pushing Out Pacific FrontiersThe Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle RouteAmericans in Far Pacific Waters: ExpeditionsAmericans in Far Pacific Waters: EntrepreneursThe Russian ConnectionGirdling the Earth, 1869-1914Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime DeclineThe Great Transcontinental Pacific RailroadsWilliam Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan RailwaySteamships on Schedule: The Pacific MailRailroad Titans and the Beringian Route to AsiaGrasping the Western PacificTheodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama CanalConquering the Skies, 1914-1941World War I and Pacific TransportThe Early Air AgeThe Zeppelin: First Over the PacificJuan Trippe and Pan American"North to the Orient"China ClipperWar, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945War Challenges Pacific TransportNew Routes and New FrontiersFlying to RussiaAmerica, the New Global Hub?The Collapse of the American Merchant MarineA New Northwest PassageThe Jet Revolution and American LeadershipSplendid FantasiesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

JOHN CURTIS PERRY is Henry Willard Denison Professor of History and Director, North Pacific Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. In 1991 the Japanese government awarded an imperial decoration, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, to Perry for extraordinary contributions to American-Japanese relations.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceThe Cruel Pacific: A PrologueOpening the Great OceanCaptain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard"To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth?Searching for Something to SellScience and ShippingWhitening the Seas, 1844-1869Pushing Out Pacific FrontiersThe Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle RouteAmericans in Far Pacific Waters: ExpeditionsAmericans in Far Pacific Waters: EntrepreneursThe Russian ConnectionGirdling the Earth, 1869-1914Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime DeclineThe Great Transcontinental Pacific RailroadsWilliam Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan RailwaySteamships on Schedule: The Pacific MailRailroad Titans and the Beringian Route to AsiaGrasping the Western PacificTheodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama CanalConquering the Skies, 1914-1941World War I and Pacific TransportThe Early Air AgeThe Zeppelin: First Over the PacificJuan Trippe and Pan American"North to the Orient"China ClipperWar, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945War Challenges Pacific TransportNew Routes and New FrontiersFlying to RussiaAmerica, the New Global Hub?The Collapse of the American Merchant MarineA New Northwest PassageThe Jet Revolution and American LeadershipSplendid FantasiesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex