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...
American Space/American Place offers geographical perspectives on the condition of the United States at the outset of the twenty-first century. It com...
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...
Selling, buying and consuming are central components of the American experience at home and abroad, not the quest for empire. "Hegemony" tells the sto...
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.
Telling the story of the drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure, this book explains that the primary goal of the foreig...
