American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, #9)

by Neil Smith

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An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0520230272
  • ISBN13 9780520230279
  • Publish Date 19 March 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 December 2007
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 584
  • Language English