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American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization
- Title
- American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization / Neil Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Neil.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- xxvii, 557 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- California studies in critical human geography ; 9
- Alternative Title
- Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-537).
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-9335
- ISBN
- 0520230272 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2002011192
- OCLC
- 50279906
- Author
- Smith, Neil.
- Title
- American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization / Neil Smith.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Series
- California studies in critical human geography ; 9
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-537).
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-9335