American Empire
Subtitle: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 9)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780520230279
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Human geography; 20th century; Biography/Autobiography; Anthropology - General; History; Biography & Autobiography; Science; Geography; USA; Bowman, Isaiah,; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Earth Sciences - Geography; Bowman, Isaiah; Science / Geography; Historical - General; United States; 1878-1950; Biography; Geographers; Globalization
First sentence: The story is told, perhaps apocryphally, that in May 1898 when William McKinley received the news that Commodore George Dewey had sailed into Manila Bay, routed the Spanish navy, and claimed the Philippines, the president was immediately jubilant-but also quickly puzzled.