| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Richard Jensen, Jon Davidann, and Yoneyuki Sugita. (Westport: Praeger, 2003. xvi, 304 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-275-97714-5.)

Trans-Pacific Relationsis a collection of essays that explain the complex historical connections between Western and Asian countries. Part of a series titled Perspectives on the Twentieth Century headed by Edward Beauchamp, the book's editors, Richard Jensen, Jon Davidann, and Yoneyuki Sugita, explained Europe's intrusions into Asia in the nineteenth century followed by America's dominant influences in the twentieth century. The last century was called the American Century, the Pacific Ocean was known as the American Lake, and Dean Acheson pointed to U.S. interests from Japan through the Persian Gulf as the American Cresent, with events in Pacific history entering the forefront. American interests in Asia and the Pacific had grown enormously after British India, Burma, and Malaysia, Dutch Indonesia, the two Koreas, and the Philippines became independent. Defeated Japan following America's occupation became a springboard for American influences throughout Asia's Pacific Rim. China was viewed as situated on America's eastern frontier, and neocolonial relationships in Vietnam and the Philippines focused attention on this area. The United States established military bases in Thailand, Okinawa, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines, creating a weblike structure of access and constructive relationships buttressed by commercial connections, which are analyzed in Trans-Pacific Relations. America following 1945 saw itself as a Pacific nation as well as an Atlantic nation.

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