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.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface The Cruel Pacific: A Prologue Opening the Great Ocean Captain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard "To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844 The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth? Searching for Something to Sell Science and Shipping Whitening the Seas, 1844-1869 Pushing Out Pacific Frontiers The Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle Route Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Expeditions Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Entrepreneurs The Russian Connection Girdling the Earth, 1869-1914 Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime Decline The Great Transcontinental Pacific Railroads William Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan Railway Steamships on Schedule: The Pacific Mail Railroad Titans and the Beringian Route to Asia Grasping the Western Pacific Theodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama Canal Conquering the Skies, 1914-1941 World War I and Pacific Transport The Early Air Age The Zeppelin: First Over the Pacific Juan Trippe and Pan American "North to the Orient" China Clipper War, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945 War Challenges Pacific Transport New Routes and New Frontiers Flying to Russia America, the New Global Hub? The Collapse of the American Merchant Marine A New Northwest Passage The Jet Revolution and American Leadership Splendid Fantasies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface The Cruel Pacific: A Prologue Opening the Great Ocean Captain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard "To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844 The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth? Searching for Something to Sell Science and Shipping Whitening the Seas, 1844-1869 Pushing Out Pacific Frontiers The Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle Route Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Expeditions Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Entrepreneurs The Russian Connection Girdling the Earth, 1869-1914 Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime Decline The Great Transcontinental Pacific Railroads William Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan Railway Steamships on Schedule: The Pacific Mail Railroad Titans and the Beringian Route to Asia Grasping the Western Pacific Theodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama Canal Conquering the Skies, 1914-1941 World War I and Pacific Transport The Early Air Age The Zeppelin: First Over the Pacific Juan Trippe and Pan American "North to the Orient" China Clipper War, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945 War Challenges Pacific Transport New Routes and New Frontiers Flying to Russia America, the New Global Hub? The Collapse of the American Merchant Marine A New Northwest Passage The Jet Revolution and American Leadership Splendid Fantasies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface The Cruel Pacific: A Prologue Opening the Great Ocean Captain Cook and the American Corporal, John Ledyard "To Glory Arise!" 1784-1844 The Pacific: Key to New American Wealth? Searching for Something to Sell Science and Shipping Whitening the Seas, 1844-1869 Pushing Out Pacific Frontiers The Clipper Ship, Maury the Pathfinder, and the Great Circle Route Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Expeditions Americans in Far Pacific Waters: Entrepreneurs The Russian Connection Girdling the Earth, 1869-1914 Suez, British Ascendancy, and American Maritime Decline The Great Transcontinental Pacific Railroads William Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan Railway Steamships on Schedule: The Pacific Mail Railroad Titans and the Beringian Route to Asia Grasping the Western Pacific Theodore Roosevelt, the Pacific, and the Panama Canal Conquering the Skies, 1914-1941 World War I and Pacific Transport The Early Air Age The Zeppelin: First Over the Pacific Juan Trippe and Pan American "North to the Orient" China Clipper War, the North Pacific, and "The New American Frontier," 1941-1945 War Challenges Pacific Transport New Routes and New Frontiers Flying to Russia America, the New Global Hub? The Collapse of the American Merchant Marine A New Northwest Passage The Jet Revolution and American Leadership Splendid Fantasies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index