Review article: America's market polity of knowledge and Ferguson's stumbling colossus

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F. Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, Free Press, New York, 1992; S. P. Huntingdon, The Clash of Civilizations, Norton, New York, 1997.

R. Kagan, Paradise and Power. America and Europe in the New World Order, Atlantic Books, London, 2003.

D. Harvey, The New Imperialism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003.

E. Todd, After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order, Columbia University Press, New York, 2003.

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I. Wallerstein, The Decline of American Power. The U.S. in a Chaotic World, New Press, New York, 2003.

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Ferguson, 2004, op. cit.

Bailyn, op. cit.

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Bailyn, op. cit.

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This section closely follows Joyce Appleby's (2000) excellent account: J. O. Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, Belknap, Cambridge, MA, 2000.

Ibid.

Ibid, p. 6.

K. W. Hoskin and R. Macve, ‘The genesis of accountability: the West Point connections’, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 13, 1987, pp. 37–73; P. A. Clark, Anglo‐American Innovation, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1987.

Fischer, op. cit.

Appleby, op. cit., p. 59.

This section draws closely from O. Zunz, Why the American Century? Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1998.

Ibid, p. xv.

T. P. Hughes, American Genesis. A History of American Genius for Invention, Penguin, New York, 1989.

See J. G. Blair, Modular America: A Cross Cultural Perspective on the Emergence of an America, Greenwood, New York, 1988.

Ibid, p. 49.

T. H. Porter, Trust in Numbers. The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995.

W. Lloyd Warner, Social Class in America, Harper Row, New York, 1937.

G. Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times, Verso, London, 1994.

See, for example, Todd, op. cit.; Wallerstein, op. cit.; Johnson, op. cit.; Mann, op. cit.

W. Roy, Socializing Capital. The Rise of the Large Corporation in America, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997; C. Perrow, Organizing America. Wealth, Power and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002.; I. Shenhav, Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.

N. Ferguson, Virtual History. Alternatives and Counterfactuals, Picador, London, 1997.

N. Ferguson, The Cash Nexus. Money and Power in the Modern World 1700–2000, Penguin, London, 2001.

Ferguson, 2003, op. cit.

Ferguson, 2004, op. cit., p. 11.

Ibid, ch. 5.

Ferguson, 2002, op. cit.

Ibid, p. 13.

See Arrighi, op. cit.

S. Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent. Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America, Routledge, New York, 1993.

P. Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles. War, Peace and the Course of History, Penguin, London, 2002.

D. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Little Brown, London, 1998.

Ibid, p. 48.

J. Dower, Embracing Defeat. Japan in the Aftermath of World War II, Penguin, New York, 1999.

Clark, op. cit.

Ibid, p. 165.

Ibid, p. 133.

See, for example, Kagan, op. cit.

See, for example, Landes, op. cit.

Bobbitt, op. cit.

E. Todd, La Chute Finale: Essai sur al Décomposition de la Sphère Sovietique, Robert Laffont, Paris, 1977.

Compare I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, The Knowledge Creating Company. How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995; Clark, op. cit.

G. J. Inkenberry, ‘Illusions of empire: defining the new American order’, Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2004.

Dower, op. cit.

Arrighi, op. cit.

M. Castells, The Internet Galaxy. Reflections of the Internet, Business and Strategy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001.

M. Hardt and A. Negri, Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000.

D. McAdam, S. Tarrow and C. Tilly, Dynamics of Contention, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.

Arrighi, op. cit.

Hardt and Negri, op. cit.

Mann, op. cit.

P. Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, Verso, New York, 1998.

Castells, op. cit.

Clark, op. cit., pp. 179–91.

Nonaka and Takeuchi, op. cit.

F. Barrett and L. Barrett, How to Watch a Football Game, Allen Lane, New York, 1980.

Such as L. G. Bowker and S. L. Star, Sorting Things Out: Classification and the Consequences (Inside Technology), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.

D. Bell, The Coming of Post‐Industrial Society, Basic Books, New York, 1973.

  Peter Clark

  University of London

  UK