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Ellen Churchill Semple’s political economy: slavery, frontier, imperium
- Abstract:
- Ellen Churchill Semple (1863-1932), the first woman president of the Association of American Geographers, is widely recognized for her role in the formation of twentieth century human geography and geopolitics. Her oeuvre, however, is often situated exclusively within the tradition of Friedrich Ratzel’s Anthropogeographie. Crucially, an equally important source of inspiration predated Semple’s encounter with the German geographer and remains largely unaccounted for: Anglophone liberal political economy. This paper argues that from her 1891 dissertation on slavery until her 1931 book on the geography of the ancient Mediterranean, Semple mobilized a framework of liberal political economy to reconcile tensions she imagined between her country's legacy of slavery and her support for its growing empire. This strand of her thought highlights the political versatility of anthropogeography and sheds new light on the interplay of geopolitics and liberalism which haunts U.S. security, trade and migration policy to this day.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/24694452.2023.2210209
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- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers More from this journal
- Volume:
- 113
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 2237-2251
- Publication date:
- 2023-06-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-04-26
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2469-4460
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2469-4452
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English
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1340409
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pubs:1340409
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- Hopkins and Klinke
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- 2023
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- © 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work isproperly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript ina repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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