The lost geography of the American century

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.