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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 emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can now be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of U.S. global ambition.<br /><br />The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878–1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer
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- Author
- Neil Smith, Neil Smith
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781417525379
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.11 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (Volume 9) (California Studies in Critical Human Geography) (2003)
- American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 9) (2003)
- American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (California Studies in Critical Human Geography Book 9) (2003)
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