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Important, insightful, and timely, this is an extraordinary synthesis of an incredibly comprehensive subject. I could never have imagined it possible to summarize the economic, political, and cultural history of US-Chinese relations over 225 years, yet Rollo has succeeded. The research is impressive, both for its thoroughness and selectivity.
The first book to develop a historical analysis of the American empire through the lens of the US-China relationship, Terminus addresses the most challenging issue in the contemporary world: the great power rivalry between the United States and China. Rollo offers a comprehensive survey of the rivalry, entanglement, and decoupling of the United States and China in global trade, investment, and production, as well as the growing role of China in undermining the US empire in such areas as capital formation, technology innovation, and global production and supply chains.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Westward Expansion and the Commercial Origins of Empire
1. The Long March Westward and Native Dispossession
2. The China Focus in Westward Expansion
3. A Colonial
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Westward Expansion and the Commercial Origins of Empire
1. The Long March Westward and Native Dispossession
2. The China Focus in Westward Expansion
3. A Colonial Empire
Part Two: Ascending Power to Unipolarity, 1914-1991
4. The Thirty Years Crisis
5. American Hegemony
6. War with Asia, Recession, and Resurgence
Part Three: A Unipolar Global Empire to a Shrinking Exploitative Hegemony, and Possible Alternatives
7. The Unipolar Moment and Imperial Hubris
8. The Sleeper Awakes: China's Rise as a World Historical Moment
9. Trump, Biden, and Trouble Ahead
Conclusion: Reflections on Empires Old and New
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