- Editorial:
- INGRAM PUBLISHING
- Año de edición:
- 2020
- Materia:
- Historia y Mitología
- ISBN:
- 978-1-945934-81-0
- Páginas:
- 24
THE GEOGRAPHICAL PIVOT OF HISTORY
HALFORD JOHN MACKINDER
The ideas which go to form a nation, as opposed to a mere crowd of human animals have usually been accepted under the pressure of a common tribulation, and under a common necessity of resistance to external force. Sir Halford Mackinder at the Royal Geographical Society, 1904
The Geographical Pivot of History was a paper submitted by Sir Halford John Mackinder in 1904 to the Royal Geographical Society in London. Mackinder had won earlier attention with his concept of geography as a bridge between the natural sciences and the humanities. In this paper, Mackinder advanced his so-called Heartland Theory, whereby the interior Asia and eastern Europe (the Heartland) had become the strategic center of the world as a result of the relative decline of sea power against land power and of the economic and industrial development of southern Siberia.
