Three Essays on Geopolitics: The Geographical Pivot of History / The Physical Basis of Political Economy / On the Scope and Methods of Geography
Halford Mackinder
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‘The conception of Euro-Asia to which we thus attain is that of a continuous land.’
This volume contains “The Geographical Pivot of History”, “The Physical Basis of Political Geography”, and “On the Scope and Methods of Geography”. These three essays by Halford Mackinder give a clear picture of Mackinder’s intellectual development on the subject of political geography. The intellectual basis formed by these essays eventually led to Mackinder’s theories regarding the control over the massive Eurasian landmass that he termed the “World-Island”.
Halford Mackinder was an English geographer, academic, and politician. He was instrumental in the development of the subject known today as geopolitics.