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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• 1 Endgame Geographies(p. 1)
• 2 Liberalism and the Roots of American Globalism(p. 28)
• 3 A Global Monroe Doctrine?(p. 53)
• 4 "a Half Loaf": Bretton Woods, the Un, and the Second Moment of Us Ambition(p. 82)
• 5 The Whole Loaf?: Globalization(p. 122)
• 6 Guantánamo Conventions: the Bankruptcy of Liberalism(p. 149)
• 7 The Endgame of Globalization: After Iraq(p. 177)
• Endnotes(p. 211)
• Index(p. 219)

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Arguing that American liberalism is at the heart of the Iraq war, Smith (geography and anthropology, City Univ. of New York) is clearly angry at the Bush administration and the policies it has enacted since 9/11 and the social problems and ills he believes are caused or exacerbated by the spread of global capitalism. The book is filled with errors and twisting of facts. For example, Smith makes several false claims about German politics. Germany has not been swept by a neoliberal tide nor is there evidence that its opposition to the war in Iraq was anything other than motivated by broad popular consensus against it. Toward the end Smith states that US bombs killed more British soldiers in the first months of the Iraq war than Iraqi troops did. He implies that many British soldiers were killed by US mistakes, but the reality is that so few British soldiers were killed that any US mistake would have killed more than the Iraqis did. The most significant problem with this polemic is that Smith conflates globalization with marketization; they are not the same. Globalization is merely a process of connecting people and other actors across state boundaries. These connections may allow the spread of markets, but they may allow the spread of other things as well. ^BSumming Up: Not recommended. K. Buterbaugh Southern Connecticut State University

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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'sGeographer and the Prelude to Globalization,which received The Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography in 2003.