American empire : Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalization / Neil Smith.

Originally published: 2003.

"First paperback printing 2004"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The lost geography of the American century -- From exploration to enterprise: geography on the cusp of empire -- 1898 and the making of a practical man -- "Conditional conquest": geography, labor, and exploration in South American -- The search for geographical order: The American Geographical Society -- The rise of foreign policy liberalism: the great war and the new world -- 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 empire at home: science and politics -- "The geography of internal affairs": pioneer settlement as national economic development -- The Kantian University: science and nation building at Johns Hopkins -- The American lebensraum -- Geopolitics: the reassertion of old world geographies -- Silence and refusal: refugees, race, and economic development -- 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 -- The bitter end -- Defeat from the jaws of victory -- Geographical solicitude, vital anomaly.