Democratic ideals and reality; a study in the politics of reconstruction

1919·8.4 MB·English

by  Mackinder, Halford John, Sir, 1861-1947

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DEMOCRATIC IDEALS AND REALITY
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
BRITAIN AND THE BRITISH SEAS.
SecondEdition.
The Clarendon Press.
Net 7s. 6d.
THE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY
AND HISTORY.
SecondEdition.
Messrs.GeorgePhilip&Son, Ltd.
Net 2s.
DEMOCRATIC IDEALS
AND REALITY
A STUDY IN THE POLITICS
OF RECONSTRUCTION
BY
H. J. MACKINDER, M.P.
LONDON
CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD
1919
Prinied in Oreat Britain
Collegei
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PREFACE
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This book, whatever its value, is the out-
come of more than the merely feverous
thought of War time the ideas upon which
;
it is based were pubhshed in outline a good
dozen years ago. In 1904, in a paper on
' The Geographical Pivot of History,' read
before the Royal Geographical Society, I
sketched the World-Island and the Heart-
land and in 1905 I wrote in the National
;
Review on the subject of * Man-power as a
Measure of National and Imperial Strength,'
an article which I beUeve first gave vogue to
the term Man-power. In that term is implicit
not only the idea of fighting strength but also
that of productivity, rather than wealth, as
the focus of economic reasoning. If I now
venture to write on these themes at some-
what greater length, it is because I feel that
the War has established, and not shaken, my
former points of view.
H. J. M.
let February 1919.
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