Fw: H-ASIA: Asia Pacific Bulletin: Want A New Map of Asia? Include the United States (comment)

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> April 23, 2011
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> Comment in response to Asia Pacific Bulletin: Want A New Map of Asia?
> Include the United States
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> From: Charles Hayford <Chayford@aol.com>
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> With reference to yesterday's posting from Asia Pacific Bulletin:
>
> Thanks to Satu Limaye for an elegantly concise but rich piece on American
> remappings of "Asia" and the Pacific. Required reading!
>
> Here are a couple of recent items to follow up and provide further
> references:
>
> 1) Bruce Cumings, _Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and
> American Power_ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009 ISBN 0300111886).
> Great erudition, energy, and wit in "re-defining" the US as formed by
> Pacific roots -- "remapping" the United States to include the Pacific.
> Lots of good stories along the way.
>
> 2) Katrina Gulliver, "Finding the Pacific World," _Journal of World
> History_ 22.1 (March 2011): 83-100. A brief but wide-ranging discussion
> of the formation and "philosophical and cultural consciousness" of the
> Pacific World from the 18th century to World War II, with useful
> introductions to recent and contemporary controversies.
>
> Does anyone know of work which systematically compares these (largely)
> American views with views from Russia, China, and Japan on the other side
> of the Pacific?
>
> There are useful histories of western conceptions of "Asia"; John Dower,
> Akira Iriye, and other standard scholarship describe the clash between
> Japanese and western empires; and recent work on "rising China" implies
> such a comparison. But I wonder if there is anything more focused and
> specific.
>
> Chuck
>
> Charles W. Hayford
> Independent Scholar/ Visiting Scholar
> Department of History, Northwestern University
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