Hegemony: The New Shape Of Global Power by John Agnew (English) Paperback Book

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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.

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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 plant closings, noted-author John Agnew shows how this drive for global hegemony is now backfiring as production and service jobs move abroad and a new geography of power portends a world in which global hegemony is decreasingly American in either provenance or reward.

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Author Biography

John Agnew is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or co-author of Place and Politics, The United States in the World Economy, The Geography of the World Economy, Geopolitics, and Place and Politics in Modern Italy, among other titles, as well as the co-editor of American Space/American Place.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Hegemony versus Empire3. American Hegemony and the New Geography of Power4. Placing American Hegemony5. U.S. Constitutionalism or Marketplace Society?6. Globalizing American Hegemony7. The New Global Economy8. Globalization Comes Home9. ConclusionNotesIndex

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"This is an important and challenging book, based on not only wide reading but also deep thinking over several decades. It is a tour de force that should be widely used to stimulate thinking about global futures beyond the simplistic offerings of too many politicians and commentators." Environment and Planning A "This innovative, lucid study of "new geographies of power" can and should be read by a wide audience, including all undergraduates majoring in humanities and social science disciplines." CHOICE "It is an excellent manuscript, mounting an effective and scholarly challenge to a great deal of rather simplistic recent work on American Empire. His arguments about hegemony are convincing, and they are interesting. Perhaps the most compelling is his attempt to show that hegemony is not simply a national project, as most of the Empire genre he criticises argue, but a global project inextricably implicated with the ways in which capitalist globalization work." Leslie Sklair "In Hegemony, which is a contribution to the literatures on both globalization and US foreign policy, John Agnew offers some cogent arguments about the rise of US hegemony and its effects on other countries. He convincingly critiques international relations theorists who characterize the United States as an empire...[and] provides a welcome riposte to international relations theorists who focus solely on territorial power." International Studies Review "An excellent and noteworthy addition to the literature...the book offers a much-needed bridge between the recent literature on American empire in geography (with its tendencies toward critical geopolitics) and new cultural histories of American neocolonialism...Hegemony deserves to be widely read...and Agnew...applauded for his tight, compelling, and path breaking work." Historical Geography

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"This is an important and challenging book, based on not only wide reading but also deep thinking over several decades. It is a tour de force that should be widely used to stimulate thinking about global futures beyond the simplistic offerings of too many politicians and commentators." Environment and Planning A"This innovative, lucid study of "new geographies of power" can and should be read by a wide audience, including all undergraduates majoring in humanities and social science disciplines." CHOICE"It is an excellent manuscript, mounting an effective and scholarly challenge to a great deal of rather simplistic recent work on American Empire. His arguments about hegemony are convincing, and they are interesting. Perhaps the most compelling is his attempt to show that hegemony is not simply a national project, as most of the Empire genre he criticises argue, but a global project inextricably implicated with the ways in which capitalist globalization work." Leslie Sklair

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Explores America's drive to create consumer capitalism abroad through political pressure and the promise of consumer goods

Details ISBN1592131530 Short Title HEGEMONY Language English ISBN-10 1592131530 ISBN-13 9781592131532 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 337.73 Illustrations Yes Year 2005 Imprint Temple University Press,U.S. Place of Publication Philadelphia PA Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9781592131532 UK Release Date 2005-04-08 AU Release Date 2005-04-08 NZ Release Date 2005-04-08 US Release Date 2005-04-08 Subtitle The New Shape Of Global Power Author John Agnew Pages 288 Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. Publication Date 2005-04-08 Alternative 9781592131525 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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