The United States and the Pacific: History of a Frontier. By Jean Heffer. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 509. $ 48.95.
本书翻译自1995年法文版，综合叙述美国在太平洋的历史，运用动态边疆概念从美洲海岸延伸至亚洲，并采用海洋学定义的太平洋范围以避免区域遗漏。
Jean Heffer's book is a translation from a French edition published in 1995 in the collection L'Evolution de l'humanité by Editions Albin Michel. The work is a synthesis of United States history in the Pacific. The author uses the concept of a dynamic frontier moving from the American shores to Asia. Heffer considers the Pacific Ocean, “as it is usually defined by oceanologists, i.e., ending at the Bering Strait in the north and including the seas along the Asian continent in the west, from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Java Sea, and washing the eastern coast of Australia” (p. 5). This choice avoids the customary pitfalls of studies that ignore some of the identifiable regions that form part of the Pacific.