| Geoffrey Till - History - 1994 - 214 pages
...upon History, 1660-1783 (note 4). p. 29. 24. 'What if the Great Continent, the Whole World- Island or a large part of it. were at some future time to...as regards ships and outmanned as regards seamen? . . . must we not still reckon with the possibility that a large part of the Great Continent might... | |
| Geoffrey Till - History - 1994 - 214 pages
...History, 1660-1783 inote 4l, p.29. 24. 'What if the Great Continent, the Whole World,Island or a large pan of it, were at some future time to become a single...as regards ships and outmanned as regards seamen? . . . must we not still reckon w ith the possibility that a large part of the Great Continent might... | |
| John Lamberton Harper - History - 1996 - 404 pages
...Russia."127 In Democratic Ideals and Reality (1919), written to sway the Paris peacemakers, Mackinder warned: "What if the Great Continent, the Whole World-Island...future time to become a single and united base of sea power?" He renamed the pivot area "Heartland" and extended it westward to include areas where Western... | |
| Mark Polelle - History - 1999 - 184 pages
...organize the heartland's resources. Mackinder asked rhetorically in Democratic Ideals and Reality, "What if the Great Continent, the whole world-Island...future time to become a single and united base of sea-power?"99 The year 1919 represented a golden opportunity for Mackinder to put academic geopolitical... | |
| Francis P. Sempa - History - 2002 - 144 pages
...resources.""1 Then he poses the ominous questions: What if the Great Continent. the whole World Island or a large part of it. were at some future time to...of sea-power? Would not the other insular bases be out built as regards ships and out manned as regards seamen? Their fleets would no doubt fight with... | |
| Martin Wight - Political Science - 2002 - 324 pages
...have become the naval base from which she would have fought Britain and America in the next war.'17 'What if the Great Continent, the whole world-island...future time to become a single and united base of sea power ? Would not the other insular bases be outbuilt as regards ships and outmanned as regards... | |
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