How do the places where people live help structure and restructure their sociopolitical identities and interests? In this book, renowned political geographer John A. Agnew presents a theoretical model that addresses the relation of place to politics and applies it to a series of historicogeographical case studies set in modern Italy.

Presents some of the most important works in urban studies.

American Space/American Place offers geographical perspectives on the condition of the United States at the outset of the twenty-first century. It compares the American ideal of liberty, equality, individual opportunity and social improvement with the contemporary condition of the regions, states and localities--the ideal American space with its reality as a place. It uses the public standard provided by the official ideology of the United States to see how well things are really going. Agnew and Smith consider the contrast between ideal and reality at local, state and national levels in...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Selling, buying and consuming are central components of the American experience at home and abroad, not the quest for empire. "Hegemony" tells the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure and the promise of goods for mass consumption. In contrast to the recent literature on America as an empire, it explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which increasingly reflects the American way of doing business and not the formation or management of an empire. Contextualizing both the Iraq war and recent...

Telling the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure, this book explains that the primary goal of the foreign and economic policies of the United States is a world which reflects their way of doing business. It shows how this drive for global hegemony is now backfiring.