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American Empire : Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization /
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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.