Title: American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization /
Authors: Smith, Neil.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Bowman, Isaiah,; Geographers United States Biography.; Geography United States History; Globalization History
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.