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NEW
ENGLAND
MERCHANTS,
THE
CHINA
TRADE,
AND
THE
ORIGINS
OF
CALIFORNIA
by
Michael
D.
Block
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
A
Dissertation
Presented
to
the
FACULTY
OF
THE
USC
GRADUATE
SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY
OF
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
In
Partial
Fulfillment
of
the
Requirements
for
the
Degree
DOCTOR
OF
PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
August
2011
Copyright
2011
Michael
D.
Block
Object Description
| Title | New England merchants, the China trade, and the origins of California |
| Author | Block, Michael D. |
| Author email | blockm@usc.edu;michael_block@mac.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-04-29 |
| Date submitted | 2011-08-01 |
| Date approved | 2011-08-01 |
| Restricted until | 2011-08-01 |
| Date published | 2011-08-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Deverell, William F. Mancall, Peter C. |
| Advisor (committee member) | Lutkehaus, Nancy |
| Abstract | The central concern of this dissertation is how Americans thought the China trade worked, and how trade with China drew Americans into the Pacific and to California not long after Independence. It is about communication and the construction of knowledge, since Americans who traded with China, or thought about trading with China, did not have perfect knowledge of the world in which they lived. Rather than manifest destiny, the desire to trade with the world, and particularly with China, drove the earliest American ventures into the Pacific. Before the bombast of Manifest Destiny or the frenzy of the California gold rush, Americans were already interested in the Pacific generally and in California specifically, as an outgrowth of their desire to trade with China. |
| Keyword | history; United States; California; China; commerce; Pacific Ocean; ginseng |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Block, Michael D. |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-BlockMicha-223.pdf |
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| Full text | NEW ENGLAND MERCHANTS, THE CHINA TRADE, AND THE ORIGINS OF CALIFORNIA by Michael D. Block _________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Michael D. Block |
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