240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The recent American invasion of Iraq represents the endgame of America's decades-old effort to impose its vision of globalization-a system dominated by multinational firms and buttressed by the liberalism of John Locke and Adam Smith. Whereas the war surely ended Saddam Hussein's regime, the storm of countervailing forces it unleashed points to another end: that of America's latest global project.... Read more
1. Geographies of Globalization 2. Globalism Before Globalization 3. A Global Monroe Doctrine: The first moment of US ambition 4. Globalism Redux: Bretton Woods, the UN and the second moment of US ambition 5. The Endgame of Globalization 6. After Iraq
Biography
Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Director of CUNY's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of Uneven Development, The New Urban Frontier, and American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, which received The Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography in 2003.
