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19th-Century US Pacific

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Beginning in the late 18th century, freed from the British Empire and with some global catching up to undertake, U.S. Americans flooded into the Pacific Basin in search of whales, raw materials, trade commodities, territory, and converts.  According to historian Matt Matsuda, no other period in Pacific history witnessed such an onslaught of newcomers aggressively navigating its every cove, island, and shoreline, north, south, east and west.  These essays take us into the 19th-century Pacific, a realm that came to be dominated by the United States by the dawn of the next century.

Extremely popular in the United States, this 1806 French panoramic wallpaper, ​"Les sauvages de la mer pacifique," depicts an abundant and welcoming world beyond the West Coast of America. 
 

This page has paths:

  1. Gallery Andrea Ledesma
  2. Asia-Pacific in the Making of the Americas: Toward a Global History Caroline Frank

Contents of this path:

  1. Federal United States Imperial Aesthetics: The Asia-Pacific as Classical Antiquity and Capital Future
  2. Samuel Wells Williams
  3. The Chinese Mestizos of Spanish Colonial Manila: Becoming "Filipino" or "Chinese" under American Colonial Rule
  4. Charles W. Le Gendre: A Treaty-Port Career in China, Japan, and Korea

Contents of this tag:

  1. Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique
  2. A Voyage Round the World
  3. Carrington House, Porch
  4. Williams description of suburbs & streets of Canton
  5. Vues des Indes
  6. Telemachus on the Isle of Calypso
  7. Col. Josiah Quincy's House
  8. Elias Hasket Derby
  9. The Sea of China and West Indies
  10. Carrington House, Interior
  11. Williams English-Chinese Vocabulary, 1844

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