List of Contributors.

Preface.

Part I: Introductions: American Destiny?.

Part II: Economic Capacities: American Know-how?.

Part III: Political Capacities: The Arsenal of Democracy?.

Part IV: Cultural Capacities: The American Dream?.

Part V: Conclusion: American Centuries?.

Index.

"[A] lively and insightful collection of essays ... by and large readable and succinct, suggesting a strong editorial hand. They are accessible to non-specialists and will prove useful in the classroom." Progress in Human Geography

David Slater is Professor of Social and Political Geography
at Loughborough University, and Joint Editor of Political
Geography. He is author of Territory and State Power in
Latin America (1989) and editor of Social Movements and
Political Change in Latin America (1994).

Peter Taylor is Professor of Geography and Associate Dean
for Research in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at
Loughborough University. He was the editor of Political
Geography (1982-1998) and an editor of Review of
International Political Economy (1992-1997). His previous books
include The Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World
Impasse (1996) and Modernities: A Geohistorical
Perspective (Polity, 1999).

D. Slater, Loughborough University; P. J. Taylor, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK