American empire: Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization
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1. Verfasser: Smith, Neil (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2003
Schriftenreihe:California studies in critical human geography 9
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-537)
Lost geography of the American century -- - PART I. FROM EXPLORATION TO ENTERPRISE: GEOGRAPHY ON THE CUSP OF EMPIRE -- - 1898 and the making of a practical man -- - "Conditional conquest" : geography, labor, and exploration in South America -- - Search for geographical order : the American Geographical Society -- - PART II. THE RISE OF FOREIGN POLICY LIBERALISM: THE GREAT WAR AND THE NEW WORLD -- - Inquiry : geography and a "scientific peace" -- - Last hurrah for Old World geographies : fixing space at the Paris Peace Conference -- - "Revolutionarily yours" : the New World, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the making of liberal foreign policy -- - PART III. THE EMPIRE AT HOME: SCIENCE AND POLITICS -- - "Geography of internal affairs" : pioneer settlement as national economic development -- - Kantian university : science and nation building at Johns Hopkins -- - PART IV. THE AMERICAN LEBENSRAUM -- - Geopolitics : the reassertion of Old World geographies -- - Silence and refusal : refugees, race, and economic development -- - Settling affairs with the Old World : dismembering Germany? -- - Toward development : shaking loose the colonies -- - Frustrated globalism, compromise geographies : designing the United Nations -- - PART V. THE BITTER END -- - Defeat from the jaws of victory -- - Geographical solicitude, vital anomaly
Arguing that American globalism had a very distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision, this text explores US global ambition. The story unfolds through an account of the career of Isaiah Bowman, the most famous American geographer of the 20th century
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 557 pages)
ISBN:0520230272
0520243382
0520931521
9780520230279
9780520243385
9780520931527

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