前言
[1]william carlos williams，paterson(new york:new directions，1963)，前言第3页。
第二章 大陆帝国
[1]bernard devoto,the year of decision:1846(boston:houghton mifflin,1989),67.
[2]wallace stegner,the uneasy chair:a biography of bernard devoto(garden city,ny:doubleday, 1974), 222—223.
[3]同上书，第232页。
[4]devoto，the year of decision，前言第14页及正文第208—209页。
[5]catherine drinker bowen, edith r. mirrielees, arthur m. schlesinger,jr., and wallace stegner, four portraits and one subject:bernard devoto(boston:houghton mifflin,1963),4.
[6]同上书，第23页。
[7]devoto,year of decision,xii.bowen,mirrielees,schlesinger,and stegner,four portraits and one subject,57—60.
[8]同上。
[9]stegner,the uneasy chair,224—227.
[10]devoto,year of decision,xi——xii.stegner,the uneasy chair,224—227.bowen,mirrielees, schlesinger,and stegner,four portraits and one subject,57—60.
[11]stephen e.ambrose,introduction to year of decision,2000.
[12]devoto,year of decision,invocation.
[13]同上书，第7—8页。
[14]同上。
[15]同上书，第137—139页。
[16]同上书，第54页。
[17]同上书，第82—83页、97页、165页和466页。
[18]同上书，第115页、118—119页、176—178页、249—250页和302—305页。
[19]wallace stegner,beyond the hundredth meridian:john wesley powell and the second opening of the west(boston:houghton mifflin,1954),256—257.
[20]devoto,year of decision,497.
[21]同上书，第495—496页和498页。
[22]bernard devoto,across the wide missouri(boston:houghton mifin,1947),3,5,and 61.
[23]同上书，第15—16页。
[24]同上书，第140页。
[25]同上书，第300—301页。
[26]同上书，第245—246页。
[27]bernard devoto，the course of empire(boston:houghton mifflin，1952)，前言第31页及正文第60页和228页。
[28]同上书，第406—407页。
[29]bernard devoto,mark twain's america,introduction by louis j.budd(lincoln,nebraska:university of nebraska press, 1997), ix——x.
[30]william carlos williams,paterson(new york:new directions,1963),28.
[31]dwight macdonald,“to the white house,”new york review of books,february 1，1963.
[32]devoto,mark twain's america,48,51,54,and 105—106.
[33]同上。
第三章 南北地理环境札记
[1]daniel j.boorstin,the americans:the colonial experience(new york:random house, 1958), chapter 24.
[2]robert d.kaplan“, what makes history:the lessons of a new england landscape,”the atlantic,march 2000.
[3]edmund morris,the rise of theodore roosevelt(new york:random house,1979),337 and 473.
[4]franklin toker,pitsburgh:a new portrait(pitsburgh:university of pitsburgh press,2009).
[5]adam wren,“iran?is that the one we invaded?”politico,july 16,2015.
第四章 东西地理环境札记
[1]wallace stegner,the gathering of zion:the story of the mormon trail(new york:mcgraw- hill, 1964), 1—2,4,and 111 of university of nebraska press edition.
[2]同上书，第4—7页、122页和153—154页。
[3]w prescott webb,the great plains(lincoln:university of nebraska press,1981),17 and 21—25.
[4]同上书，第43—44页和52页。
[5]同上书，第140—141页、184—185页和201页。
[6]同上书，第207—208页、226页和245—246页。
[7]同上书，第486页、489页、491页、507页和513页。
[8]wallace stegner,beyond the hundredth meridian:john wesley powell and the second opening of the west(boston:houghton mifflin,1954),3.
[9]同上书，第17页、39页、42—43页、62页和72页。
[10]同上书，第93页和110—111页。
[11]同上书，第113页和122页。
[12]同上书，第230—231页、308页和353页。
[13]同上书，第174页。
[14]simon schama,landscape and memory(new york:knopf,1995),394—395 and 397.
[15]robert frost,“the gift outright,”virginia quarterly review,spring 1942.
[16]david s.reynolds,walt whitman's america:a cultural biography(new york:knopf, 1995), 298.
[17]xilao li“, walt whitman and asian american writers,”walt whitman quarterly review, 10, no. 4 (1993).
第五章 中国
[1]john r.hale，lords of the sea:the epic story of the athenian navy and the birth of democracy(new york:viking penguin，2009)，前言第23—25页和27页。
[2]stratfor, “the geopolitics of the united states, part 1: the inevitable empire,” august 24,2011.
[3]halford j.mackinder,democratic ideals and reality(new york:henry holt and company, 1919; 1942 national defense university edition),45—49.
[4]国会预算办公室估计，到2044年军舰数量可能会降至208艘。“preserving the navy's forward presence with a smaller fleet,” march 2015.
[5]john darwin,after tamerlane:the rise and fall of global empires,1400-2000(new york:bloomsbury press, 2008), 22—23,236,469,479,and 491.
[6]同上书，第469页。
[7]paul kennedy,grand strategies in war and peace(new haven,ct:yale university press, 1991), 167.
[8]darwin,after tamerlane,479.
[9]william pfaff,“why the arab world fights,”the american conservative,november/december 2014.
[10]robert d. kaplan “, america's imperial class,” stratfor, november 21,2012.
[11]john lewis gaddis,george f.kennan:an american life(new york:penguin press,2011),278.
[12]同上书，第299页。
[13]bernard devoto,the course of empire(boston:houghton mifflin,1952),266.
[14]andrew j.birtle,u.s.army counterinsurgency and contingency operations doctrine 1860-1941(washington,d.c.:center of military history,2004),7—12.
[15]brian mcallister linn,the echo of battle:the army's way of war(cambridge,ma:harvard university press, 2007), 71—73.
[16]william pfaff,the irony of manifest destiny:the tragedy of america's foreign policy (new york: walker ＆ company, 2010), 71—72, 86 and 99—100.
[17]herman melville,moby-dick(1851;repr.,new york:knopf,1988),576.
[18]charles olson,call me ishmael(san francisco:city lights books,1947),12 and 14.
[19]gaddis,george f.kennan,323 and 435.