American Empire - Roosevelts Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization

Informationen zum Autor Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography and Director of the Center for Place! Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center! City University of New York. His recent books include Uneven Development (1990) and New Urban Frontier (1996). Klappentext "This is a dazzling and original book! the product of painstaking and meticulous research! artfully conceived and beautifully written. Given the complexity of the account! its breathtaking range! and the number of vitally important issues to which it speaks! it is written with a clarity that I can only applaud."-Derek Gregory! author of Colonizing Geographics "This is a very good book?. It should become a major work not only of reference but also for reflection on how foreign and commercial policy got shaped in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century."-David Harvey! author of Spaces of Hope Zusammenfassung Offers a geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of US global ambition.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Smith
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2004
• EAN: 9780520243385
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24338-5
• No. of pages: 586
• Series: California Studies in Critical; California Studies in Critical Human Geography
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; History, Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, HISTORY / United States / General, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas