The lost geography of the American century
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scottish Geographical Journal
- Vol. 115 (1) , 1-18
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00369229918737054
Abstract
The rise of the American empire in the twentieth century was accompanied by the loss of a certain geographical parallax on world events. The roots of this ‘end of geography’ ideology can be traced to the defeat of the spatial turn of 1898–1919, a period in which the relationship between economic and geographical expansion was dramatically restructured. Recovering the geography of a supposedly aspatial American globalism is of historical importance as well as contemporary political interest.Keywords
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