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

Neil Smith 2004 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520243385 (paper)
  • 9780520931527 (ebook)
  • 9780520230279 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Maps (page ix)
  • Prologue (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxiii)
  • 1. The Lost Geography of the American Century (page 1)
  • PART I. FROM EXPLORATION TO ENTERPRISE: GEOGRAPHY ON THE CUSP OF EMPIRE
    • 2. 1898 and the Making of a Practical Man (page 31)
    • 3."Conditional Conquest": Geography, Labor, and Exploration in South America (page 53)
    • 4. The Search for Geographical Order: The American Geographical Society (page 83)
  • PART II. THE RISE OF FOREIGN POLICY LIBERALISM: THE GREAT WAR AND THE NEW WORLD
    • 5. The Inquiry: Geography and a "Scientific Peace" (page 113)
    • 6. A Last Hurrah for Old World Geographies: Fixing Space at the Paris Peace Conference (page 139)
    • 7. "Revolutionarily Yours": The New World, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Making of Liberal Foreign Policy (page 181)
  • PART III. THE EMPIRE AT HOME: SCIENCE AND POLITICS
    • 8. "The Geography of Internal Affairs": Pioneer Settlement as National Economic Development (page 211)
    • 9. The Kantian University: Science and Nation Building at Johns Hopkins (page 235)
  • PART IV. THE AMERICAN LEBENSRAUM
    • 10. Geopolitics: The Reassertion of Old World Geographies (page 273)
    • 11. Silence and Refusal: Refugees, Race, and Economic Development (page 293)
    • 12. Settling Affairs with the Old World: Dismembering Germany? (page 317)
    • 13. Toward Development: Shaking Loose the Colonies (page 347)
    • 14. Frustrated Globalism, Compromise Geographies: Designing the United Nations (page 374)
  • PART IV. THE BITTER END
    • 15. Defeat from the Jaws of Victory (page 419)
    • 16. Geographical Solicitude, Vital Anomaly (page 454)
  • Collections Consulted (page 463)
  • Notes (page 465)
  • Index (page 539)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
PHR 73.3 (Aug. 2004): 518-519 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3642149
GR 93.2 (Apr. 2003): 267-271 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30033910
AHR 109.2 (Apr. 2004): 554 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3523368
RAH 32.2 (Jun. 2004): 196-203 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/v032/32.2schulten.html
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