the american way_ a geographica - earle, carville

[...]... constitutional history—stages that partition the American state into its three scalar dimensions: the Sectional State, 1780s1877; the National State, 187 7-1 970s; and the Transnational State, 1980s to date The Sectional State and its principles of dual federalism gave way to the National State predicated on the Fourteenth Amendment and the ensuing nationalization of the Bill of Rights The National State was... nationalism and turned toward the alternative of egalitarian internationalism (i.e., of Jacksonian democracy and the First American Democracy) Or again in the 1870s, Americans reverted to elitist nationalism and launched the Second American Republic during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era The alternation persisted in the Great Depression of the 1930s with the New Deal, the restoration of egalitarian... domains of American power, and redefined the nature of the state First came the Soctional State in the 1790s; second, the National State in the 1880s; and third, the Transnational State in the 1980s On each of these occasions, Americans enlarged the scale of the new and revised American state, expanded its territorial and jurisdictional reach, and within these boundaries extended the spatial range for implementing... through the Fifteenth Amendments and the creation of the National State; and in the 1980s and 1990s with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and NAFTA and the creation of the Transnational State Part II describes in four chapters the colonial foundations of the American Way, circa 1560s-1780s Chapter 7 chronicles the English backing into empire between the reign of Elizabeth (155 8-1 603) and the. .. that recovery invariably spawns; they have enlarged the spatial domains of American power and social opportunity; and, not least, they have maintained social continuity within a liberal democracy This, in a word, is the American Way The Periodic Structure of the American Past The periodic structure of the American past serves as the foundation for the institutional repertoire of crisis and recovery (figure... periodic alternations are mapped and graphed at multiple scales: local, regional, national, and global To produce these many maps in camera-ready form in both digital and hard-copy versions and in short order, I have relied on the extraordinary talents of Clifford Duplechin and Mary Lee Eggart in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University They have transformed the crudest... their way into my lecture as Distinguished Scholar in Historical Geography presented at the meetings of the Association of American Geographers and, once again, into my reflections on the empirical and theoretical criticisms of the commentators: Edward Muller, Van Beck Hall, Anne Knowles, and James Lemon Visual graphics play an important role in The American Way The key spatial variables and their periodic... international economic litigation (e.g., foreign cartels and the dumping of foreign goods on American markets) as well as in civil suits successfully seeking damages against the state sponsors of terrorism But the enlargement of the American state is not restricted to unilateral actions; concurrently, the agents of the Transnational State have advanced the course of empire via regional (NAFTA, NATO) and... national-scale firms, and firmed up the political power of the urban-industrial Northeast and Midwest The National State, in turn, gave way to the Transnational State in the 1970s and 1980s (see chapter 6) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 initially extended the jurisdiction of the federal courts to cases involving overseas American firms and their workers Their jurisdiction has continued to expand in matters... furnish the rich in the next” (quoted in Hartz 1955: 112; on reformed Whiggery more generally, 8 9-1 13) The American Way assumes a similarly Whiggish approach to empire, expansion, and the American state Whereas Meinig and Agnew share the view of empire as a materialist function of territorial expansion and/or the extension of American economic influence abroad, I here regard empire as an idealist function . Way. The key spatial variables and their periodic alternations are mapped and graphed at multiple scales: local, regional, national, and global. To produce these many maps in camera-ready form in. in American constitutional history—stages that partition the American state into its three scalar dimensions: the Sectional State, 1780s- 1877; the National State, 187 7-1 970s; and the Transnational. Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Earle, Carville. The American way : a geographical history of crisis and recovery / Carville, Earle. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 9780742599215 1.