1. The Lost Geography of the American Century -- Pt. 1. From Exploration to Enterprise: Geography on the Cusp of Empire -- 2. 1898 and the Making of a Practical Man -- 3. "Conditional Conquest": Geography, Labor, and Exploration in South America -- 4. The Search for Geographical Order: The American Geographical Society -- Pt. II. The Rise of Foreign Policy Liberalism: The Great War and the New World -- 5. The Inquiry: Geography and a "Scientific Peace" -- 6. A Last Hurrah for Old World Geographies: Fixing Space at the Paris Peace Conference -- 7. "Revolutionarily Yours": The New World, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Making of Liberal Foreign Policy -- Pt. III. The Empire at Home: Science and Politics -- 8. "The Geography of Internal Affairs": Pioneer Settlement as National Economic Development -- 9. The Kantian University: Science and Nation Building at Johns Hopkins -- Pt. IV. The American Lebensraum.