Dominion from sea to sea: Pacific ascendancy and American power

I.A frontier of the mind. 1. The machine in the garden

2. The remote beyond compare: finding California -

II. From sea to shining sea: manifest destiny. 3. A continent in five easy pieces

4. Manifest destiny's offspring: gold, the continental railroad, Texas

5. Abroad in search of Monsters to destroy -

III. Pacific states, New England peoples. 6. East to Eden: the Pacific Northwest

7. Edens Lush and Frigid

8. Pacific crossings: Asians in the United States -

IV. A crust of the earth: protean California. 9. A garden Cornucopia

10. There it is. Take it: water and power

11. Southern California: island and the Pacific

12. The state as pretense of itself: developing the West

13. Postwar California and the rise of Western republicanism

14. In California's shadow: the rest of the West in the postwar era

15. Archipelago of the empire: an American grid for the global garden

16. Silicon Valley: a New World at the edge of the sea

17. Conclusion: The American ascendancy.