American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization

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AMERICAN EMPIRE This page intentionally left blank california studies in critical human geography Editorial Board: Professor Michael Watts, University of California • Berkeley Professor Allan Pred, University of California • Berkeley Professor Richard Walker, University of California • Berkeley Professor Gillian Hart, University of California • Berkeley Professor AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California • Berkeley Professor Mary Beth Pudup, University of California • Santa Cruz 1. Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes by Karl S. Zimmerer 2. Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History edited by Leonie Sandercock 3. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin by Gray Brechin 4. Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa by Roderick P. Neumann 5. Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia by Richard A. Schroeder 6. On Holiday: A History of Vacationing by Orvar Löfgren 7. Spaces of Hope by David Harvey 8. Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination by Allan Pred 9. American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith Isaiah Bowman on the cover of Time, 1936 (TimePix). university of california press BERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON AMERICAN EMPIRE ROOSEVELT’S GEOGRAPHER AND THE PRELUDE TO GLOBALIZATION neil smith Earlier versions of three chapters appeared as prior publications: “The Lost Geography of the American Century,” Scottish Geographical Journal 115 (1999): 1–18 (Chapter 1); “Bowman’s New World and the Council on Foreign Relations,” Geographical Review 76 (1986): 438–60 (Chapter 7); “Shaking Loose the Colonies: Isaiah Bowman and the ‘Decolonization ’ of the British Empire,” in Geography and Empire, ed. Anne Godlewska and Neil Smith (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994), 270–99 (Chapter 13). University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England© 2003 by the Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, Neil. American empire : Roosevelt’s geographer and the prelude to globalization / Neil Smith. p. cm. — (California studies in critical human geography ; 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0–520-23027-2 (acid-free paper). 1. Bowman, Isaiah, 1878–1950. 2. Geographers—United States— Biography. 3. Geography—United States—History—20th century. 4. Globalization—History—2oth century. I. Title. II. Title: Roosevelt’s geographer and the prelude to globalization. III. Series. g69.b75s65 2003 910
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