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THE GEOGRAPHICAL PIVOT OF HISTORY IBD

SIR HALFORD JOHN MACKINDER
COSIMO CLASSICS
02 / 2020
9781945934810
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Sinopsis

&ldquo,The ideas which go to form a nation, as opposed to a mere crowd of human animals have usually been accepted under the pressure of a common tribulation, and under a common necessity of resistance to external force.&rdquo, &mdash,Sir Halford Mackinder at the Royal Geographical Society, 1904The Geographical Pivot of History was a paper submitted by Sir Halford John Mackinder in 1904 to the Royal Geographical Society in London. Mackinder had won earlier attention with his concept of geography as a bridge between the natural sciences and the humanities. In this paper, Mackinder áadvanced his so-called Heartland Theory, whereby the interior Asia and eastern Europe (&ldquo,the Heartland&rdquo,) had become the strategic center of the world as a result of the relative decline of sea power against land power and of the economic and industrial development of southern Siberia.Mackinder&rsquo,s Heartland Theory has been considered the founding moment of geopolitics, the study of the effects of Earth',s geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations. Mackinder&rsquo,s theories are further described in his book, Democratic Ideals and Reality (1919), also from Cosimo Classics.