"A stimulating paper." -The Nation"The most important general paper that has been communicated to us." -Geographical Journal"A notable paper ... makes a bold generalisation as to the geographical control of world politics." -Indian Ed.Halford John Mackinder's 1904 paper "The Geographical Pivot of History" is an attempt to exhibit human history as part of the life of the world organism by showing how the successive invasions of the Asiatic nomads from ...

"A stimulating paper." -The Nation"The most important general paper that has been communicated to us." -Geographical Journal"A notable paper ... makes a bold generalisation as to the geographical control of world politics." -Indian Ed.Halford John Mackinder's 1904 paper "The Geographical Pivot of History" is an attempt to exhibit human history as part of the life of the world organism by showing how the successive i...

"Mackinder is one of the most distinguished living geographers...a wealth of historical and geographical knowledge." - Fortnightly Review, 1920"This volume will become standard for its treatment of the broad outlines of commercial and industrial geography." -The Atlantic Monthly, 1921"Of signal interest and importance to all students of history and of politics." - American Historical Review, 1920"Mackinder is a man of distinction, dir...

India is an empire within an empire. There are four hundred million people in the British Empire, and of these three hundred million are in India. Though it is known by a single short name, India must not be compared with countries such as France and Germany. As regards both area and population it is the equal of half Europe, that half which includes all the countries except Russia. It is a land of many languages, some of them spoken by as many people as speak German or French. It is a lan...

THE component parts of the British Empire are so remote and so different from one another, that it is evident that the Empire can only be held together by sympathy and understanding, based on widely diffused knowledge of its geography, history, resources, climates, and races. It is obvious that if this knowledge is to be effective it must be imparted to the coming generation. In other words it must be taught in the Schools of the Empire. In the Autumn of 1902, a Committee was appointed by ...

Nel 1904, Halford John Mackinder, allora direttore della London School of Economics, pubblica un saggio intitolato Il perno geografico della storia, nel quale enuncia per la prima volta la sua teoria dell’Heartland - Cuore della Terra –, una regione strategica estesa entro precisi confini geografici, dal cui controllo dipende il dominio del Continente Antico, che Mackinder definisce World-Island – Isola del Mondo. È su questi concetti chiave che egli fonda il suo pensiero, dando così avvio...

"[?] nicht nur hat Europa kein Geld für Krieg. Europa kann nicht Krieg und es hat in diesem Krieg nichts zu gewinnen! Es ist dafür strukturell, finanziell und militärisch nicht ausgelegt. Europa kann sich keinen Krieg leisten, wenn es als demokratische Einheit überleben soll. Anders formuliert: Europa hieß einmal #NieWiederKrieg! Europa kann nur Frieden. Allein die Rückbesinnung auf seine Geschichte kann Europa retten und seine Emanzipation befördern. Europa muss wieder Friedensmacht werde...