American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization /

American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization / Neil Smith.

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The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer on...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Smith, Neil, 1954-2012 (Author)
Other title:Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series:California studies in critical human geography ; 9.
Subjects:
Bowman, Isaiah, > 1878-1950.
Geographers > United States > Biography.
Geography > United States > History > 20th century.
Globalization > History > 20th century.
Geographers.
Geography.
Globalization.
United States.
Electronic book.
Biographies.
History.
Table of 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.

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