American empire in the Pacific : from trade to strategic balance, 1700-1922 / edited by Arthur Power Dudden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The English background of American isolationism in the eighteenth century / Felix Gilbert -- Chinese export porcelain in eighteenth-century Tidewater Virginia / Julia B. Curtis -- Strategies for finding the Northwest Passage: the roles of Alexander Mackenzie and Meriwether Lewis / Gunther Barth -- The legacy of Old Canton / Jacques M. Downs -- American continentalism: An idea of expansion, 1845-1910 / Charles Vevier -- James Polk / Norman A. Graebner -- Matthew Calbraith Perry: antebellum precursor of the steam navy / John H. Schroeder -- The sale of Alaska in the context of Russian American relations in nineteenth century / N.N. Bolkhovitinov -- The independent minister: John M.B. Sill and the struggle against Japanese expansion in Korea, 1894-1897 / Jeffery M. Dorwart -- Assessing public opinion: editorial comment and the annexation of Hawaii - a case study / George F. Pearce -- The American remission of the boxer indemnity: a reappraisal / Michael H. Hunt -- The Panama Canal and sea power in the Pacific / Alfred Thayer Mahan -- Protestant missionaries and American colonialism in the Philippines, 1899-1916: attitudes, perceptions, and involvement / Kenton J. Clymer -- Wilsonian idealism and Japanese claims at the Paris Peace Conference / Noriko Kawamura -- American intervention in Russia: the north Russian expedition, 1918-1919 / James W. Long -- Look back in anger: the western powers and the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 / Malcolm H. Murfett.