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Let the Sea Make a Noise...: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur
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by Walter A. Mcdougall
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Cover Type: Paperback with 848 pages
Published by: Harper Perennial March 30, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0060578203
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0060578206
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 2.2 inches
Weighs: 2.2 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
McDougall chronicles the cultural, racial, economic and military confrontations of the British, Spaniards, Hawaiians and Chinese in the North Pacific since the 16th century. He pays special attention to the intertwined histories of the Americans, Russians and Japanese who made the North Pacific an arena for power politics. A history professor at the University of Pennsylvania (and author of the Pulitzer-winning The Heavens and the Earth ), McDougall is a first-rate scholar and a marvelous writer. Here he periodically interrupts his headlong narrative to present the minutes of seminars attended by ghosts of the North Pacific past: Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish missionary; Kaahumanu, consort of Hawaiian King Kamehameha; William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state; Count Sergey Witte, prime minister to Russia's Nicholas II; and Saito Hirosi, pre-Pearl Harbor Japanese ambassador to Washington. These well-informed, opinionated wraiths discuss and argue with one another (and with the author) about such matters as the theory of the mongrelization of races and the extraordinary profusion of atrocities committed by the Japanese military in WW II. This is an impressive study, breathtaking in scope, entertainingly informative and thought-provoking. Photos. $25,000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPB alternates.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
McDougall (history, Univ. of Pennsylvania) has given us a stimulating analysis of the interaction of the races and cultures of the North Pacific over the past four centuries. Tracing developments in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Alaska, Russia, Japan, Korea, China, Hawaii, and other north Pacific islands, he looks at the history, societies, economics, and geopolitics of the region within the context of three eras defined by technology: "Of Sail and Muscle," "Of Steam and Rails," and "Internal Combustion." His imaginative and original approach includes bringing to life prominent figures from different countries and eras to help interpret the important events in which they participated. A delight to read; highly recommeded.
- W.L. Wuerch, Micronesian Area Research Ctr. , Univ. of Guam
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
This is a terrific book. It is the history of the Pacific Ocean for the past 400 years. It is surprising what that involves because so many nations from all around the world made strenuous efforts to control, colonize, and conquer so many places along its continental coasts and its many islands. It also involves many different indigenous cultures and a hugely changing political scene. One of the reasons I love the book is Walter McDougall's lively and engaging writing style. This is a book of solid scholarship, but it is full of art as well. One of the problems facing anyone who would write such a history is how to tell it in a coherent way. McDougall came up with a brilliant literary solution. He has the author dream the key characters in periodic conversations about the events under consideration with the Hawiian Kaahumanu as the central and governing center of the wheel. Reading this book was a real pleasure for me. I read a lot and widely, and this book was a special pleasure. It begins in 1565 with early European exploration of the Pacific and ends just after the Second World War and ends with a bunch of questions, ponderables, the author calls them, about the 1990s. Some of them seem to have been acted on, but many issues continue to this day and some new ones could be added to the list. Along the way there is the settling of Alaska, of Russian ambition, of Japans rise from its isolation to become a military empire, of China, of Spain, of the rise of America and Canada. It is a story of commerce, religion, culture, and of great violence. Hugely dramatic and very informative. I know it will seem unlike any other history you have ever read. And that is only one of its many virtues.
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