American empire Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization - Smith, Neil (University of California Press, 2003)
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