Volume 51, Number 10 · June 10, 2004
Mission Impossible?
By Paul Kennedy
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire
by Niall Ferguson
Penguin, 384 pp., $25.95
The Geographical Pivot of History
an article by Halford J. Mackinder
Geographical Journal, Vol. 23 (1904)
Democratic Ideals and Reality
by Halford J. Mackinder
Greenwood, 278 pp., $78.95
Exactly one hundred years ago, in April 1904, the prestigious Geographical Journal of London published one of the most remarkable articles on international affairs that has appeared in modern times. Written by Halford J. Mackinder, the newly appointed director of the London School of Economics, it also had one of the most intriguing titles: 'The Geographical Pivot of History.' This piece had been given as a lecture just three months earlier, on January 25, 1904, in the main room of the Royal Geographical Society itself. It was attended by a group of British policymakers, journalists, and intellectuals who offered comments once the talk was over.
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