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Democratic Ideals and Reality: A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction. E-book. Formato PDF Halford John Mackinder - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Democratic Ideals and Reality delves into the world of geopolitics in the immediate aftermath of the Great War but reflects even the tiniest realities of daily life. Halford John Mackinder was unusually prescient in noting the tremendous potential and danger of changing population demographics across the world and within Europe. He notes the new freedom of mankind to engage in large-scale idealism, where previously the capacity to spend time in building an ideology had been solely devoted to scrabbling for the means of survival. From the modern perspective it is easy to see Mackinder’s anxiety about large populations across Europe, engaged in politics but without the education the author considered necessary for prudent decision making. With palpable unease this work recalls young men campaigning to cement self-rule in Ireland, the rapid growth of cities and the laissez-faire attitude of centralised modern nation states to this enormous era of social and industrial development. In thinking about the effects and origins of these social changes Mackinder does not flinch from reflecting in depth on the inner workings of British society. In an age of fragmented communities it is fascinating to see Mackinder’s early misgivings about urban workers, atomised and disconnected and an elevated set of elites who detach themselves from their local communities and as a result create a fractured society. Each reader must face up to the author’s questions about the direction of his world and determine for themselves whether society has confirmed his fears in the years since this work.
Britain and the British Seas. E-book. Formato PDF Halford John Mackinder - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The idea of this book was first suggested to me by the needs of some foreign students visiting Britain, but when Mr. Heinemann proposed a description of the world, my scheme was expanded to twelve volumes by different authors. The aim of each is to present a picture of the physical features and condition of a great natural region, and to trace their in?uence upon human societies. Of the twelve selected divisions, Britain is the smallest, and is known in such detail that it has been possible to attempt a complete geographical synthesis. The pheno mena of topographical distribution relating to many classes of fact have been treated, but from a single standpoint and on a uniform method. It is obvious that in a work involving the accurate statement of data so various, some amount of help from students in kindred subjects is essential. Two of my colleagues at Oxford and Reading, Mr. H. N. Dickson and Dr. T. T. Groom, have very kindly read the proof, the one of Chapters III., IV., X., and XI., the other of Chapters VI., VII., and VIII. They have made several important contributions, but have no responsibility what ever for any errors into which I may have fallen. To Mr. I. L. Myres and to Major P. G. Craigie I am indebted for sources of information pertinent to Chapters XII. And XIX. Respectively. My gratitude is also due to my Wife and to my friend, Mr. W. M. Childs, for correcting por tions of the proof.
Distant Lands: An Elementary Study in Geography. E-book. Formato PDF Halford John Mackinder - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The historical thread Of the present volume is cut short near the close of the eighteenth century, ex cept in regard to geographical exploration, which is pursued into the nineteenth century in order that the physical sketch Of the world's surface may include a few ideas concerning the deep ocean and the Polar regions. Existing political geography is reserved for the fourth and last volume Of the series. Adhering as in the two preceding books to the idea that a text book should present a text, and that commentary and question can only come with vivid interest from the living teacher, I have refused to cumber my pages with an apparatus of notes and exercises which, so far as I remember my boyhood, made school books repellent.