The Geographical Journal articles from December 2004

The Geographical Journal archives from December 2004

Halford Mackinder and the 'geographical pivot of history': a centennial retrospective.
December 1, 2004... On geographical pivots In June 2004, the Yale historian Paul Kennedy wrote an article for the British daily The Guardian entitled 'the pivot of history' (Kennedy 2004). Despite the omission of the word 'geographical', it was readily...

The imperial vision of Halford Mackinder.
December 1, 2004... This paper examines the origins and evolution of Mackinder's imperial vision and suggests that a profound alteration in his views, particularly regarding the economics of imperialism, played a part in the formulation of the Pivot paper. ...

The geographical pivot of history and early twentieth century geopolitical culture.
December 1, 2004... On 25 January 1904, the director of the London School of Economics, Halford J. Mackinder, gave a lecture on 'The geographical pivot of history' at the Royal Geographical Society. Seventeen years earlier, Mackinder had introduced the teaching of...

The political pivot of geography.
December 1, 2004... This paper explores the political nature of responses to John Scott Keltie's (1885) report on geographical education. Halford Mackinder and Peter Kropotkin both wrote prospectuses for the discipline as part of a campaign to promote geography, a...

Revisiting the 'pivot': the influence of Halford Mackinder on analysis of Uzbekistan's international relations.
December 1, 2004... The editor of a recent book on security and foreign policy issues in Central Asia and the Caucasus introduced it by stating that Sir Halford Mackinder's 1904 identification of this region as the key to world geopolitics is an apt...

South American heartland: the Charcas, Latin American geopolitics and global strategies.
December 1, 2004... Introduction In 1944, as the Haushofers fell from favour and the Nazi regime began to collapse, Karl Haushofer's Zeitschrift fur Geopolitik ceased publication. However, in post-war West Germany the journal reappeared in 1951, phoenix-like...

Beyond the 'Outer Crescent': the Mackinder century in New Zealand geopolitics.(Halford Mackinder)
December 1, 2004... I once went to a coastal city in California to receive an award from a local peace foundation in recognition of New Zealand's efforts towards disarmament... The award itself was a handsome creation. Etched on thick glass was a map...

Encounters with Mackinder: a personal memoir.(Afterword)
December 1, 2004... Mackinder's world view, enshrined in particular in his heartland or pivot concept, has gained more attention than any other specifically geographical theory across the world in the twentieth century. Further, it is difficult to think of another...

Revisiting Mackinder 1904-2004.
December 1, 2004... These thoughtful articles reflect constructively on Mackinder's 1904 Pivot paper, documenting the ways in which his ideas were transposed to other parts of the world and interrogating his very imperial geopolitics a century on. In revisiting...

Reviews.(The Physical Geography of North America)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... We apologize to Chris Young for publishing an incomplete review of this book in the September 2004 issue of The Geographical Journal. The Physical Geography of North America. Edited by ANTONY ORME Oxford: OUP, 2002 608 pp. [pounds...

The geographical pivot of history (1904).
December 1, 2004... THE GEOGRAPHICAL PIVOT OF HISTORY. (1) WHEN historians in the remote future come to look back on the group of centuries through which we are now passing, and see them foreshortened, as we to-day see the Egyptian dynasties, it may well be...