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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

James Bradley

What did Theodore Roosevelt's large delegation to Asia quietly decide, and how did those choices shape America's role there for generations?

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Author
James Bradley

Why read it

  • You will learn to compare what leaders say they are doing abroad with what they actually do
  • You will see how assumptions about race and readiness for freedom were used to justify control over other peoples
  • You will learn to trace a later war back to the earlier choices that helped set it up

Who it is for

  • Readers of American foreign policy history
  • Anyone who questions the polite story of empire
  • Students looking at how the Pacific became a stage for rivalry

Contents

  1. Chapter 1
  2. ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER
  3. Chapter 2
  4. CIVILIZATION FOLLOWS THE SUN
  5. Chapter 3
  6. BENEVOLENT INTENTIONS
  7. Chapter 4
  8. PACIFIC NEGROES
  9. Chapter 5
  10. HAOLES
  11. Chapter 6
  12. HONORARY ARYANS
  13. Chapter 7
  14. PLAYING ROOSEVELT’S GAME
  15. Chapter 8
  16. THE JAPANESE MONROE DOCTRINE FOR ASIA
  17. Chapter 9
  18. THE IMPERIAL CRUISE
  19. Chapter 10
  20. ROOSEVELT’S OPEN AND CLOSED DOORS
  21. Chapter 11
  22. INCOGNITO IN JAPAN
  23. Chapter 12
  24. SELLOUT IN SEOUL
  25. Chapter 13
  26. FOLLOWING THE SUN

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