ISBN:
0520230272
,
9780520230279
,
9780520243385
Language:
English
Pages:
XXVII, 557 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Series Statement:
California studies in critical human geography 9
Series Statement:
California studies in critical human geography
DDC:
910/.92
Keywords:
Bowman, Isaiah
;
Geographers Biography
;
Geography History 20th century
;
Globalization History 20th century
;
Bowman, Isaiah 1878-1950
;
USA
;
Geografie
;
Geschichte 1898-2000
;
Globalisierung
;
Geschichte 1898-2000
;
Bowman, Isaiah 1878-1950
;
USA
;
Geografie
;
Globalisierung
;
Geschichte 1898-2000
Description / Table of 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002011192.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002011192.html
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