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Capitalist Collisions in the Pacific

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2020

Abstract

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Take Three: The Bombing of the USS Panay
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The author would like to thank Brooke Blower, Victor McFarland, and Modern American History's anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback on earlier versions of this essay.

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