Democratic Ideals and Reality
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Faber & Faber
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
11.04.2011
Verlag
Faber & FaberSeitenzahl
248
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/13.5/1.8 cm
Gewicht
342 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-571-25376-0
1919 saw the publication of two major polemical works: The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes and Democratic Ideals and Reality by Halford J. Mackinder. The former is famous, the latter much less so - but it was its own way a prophetic book.
Mackinder´s message, his warning - addressed to the peacemakers at Versailles - was memorably summarized thus: ´Who Rules East Europe commands the Heartland: / Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island: / Who rules the World-Island commands the World.´
Mackinder contended that power was shifting from the sea-borne empires to countries that encompassed the great land masses: Eastern Europe he designated as ´the geographical pivot of history.´ His thesis made a notable impression on German geopolitician Karl Haushofer who was keenly read, in turn, by Hitler. But Democratic Ideals and Reality has endured as a critical study of imperial ambitions and geographical realities.
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