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

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Main Author: Smith, Neil
Other title:Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series:California studies in critical human geography ; 9.
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Table of Contents:
  • The lost geography of the American century
  • 1898 and the making of a practical man
  • "Conditional conquest" : geography, labor, and exploration in South America
  • The search for geographical order : the American Geographical Society
  • The inquiry : geography and a "scientific peace"
  • A 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
  • "The geography of internal affairs" : pioneer settlement as national economic development
  • The Kantian university : science and nation building at Johns Hopkins
  • 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
  • Defeat from the jaws of victory
  • Geographical solicitude, vital anomaly.