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- John Halford (21 April 1846 – 1 April 1901) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1870 to 1874 for Gloucestershire. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who made 10 career appearances.
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Halford Mackinder was a British political geographer noted for his work as an educator and for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two camps, the ascendant Eurasian “heartland” and the subordinate “maritime lands,” including the other continents. He was knighted in 1920.
Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was a British geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics [1] and geostrategy.
Jan 30, 2019 · The father of geopolitics. A hundred years ago Halford Mackinder warned of the threat of global domination from the east. His theories influenced Hitler and are now having a revival – for better and for worse. By Phil Tinline. Portrait of Halford John Mackinder (1861-1947), There is no official date for this image, taken c. 1891, 1981.
- The Crimean War
- Possible Influence on Nazi Germany
- Other Influences of Mackinder's Theory
Mackinder's theory was never fully proven because no one power in history had actually controlled all three of these regions at the same time. But the Crimean War came close. During this conflict, waged from 1853 to 1856, Russia fought for control of the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine. But it lost to an allegiance of the French and British, whi...
Some historians have conjectured that Mackinder's theory may have influenced Nazi Germany's drive to conquer Europe (although there are many who think the eastward push of Germany that led to World War II just happened to coincide with Mackinder's heartland theory). The concept of geopolitics (or geopolitik, as Germans called it) was proposed by Sw...
Mackinder's theory also may have influenced Western powers' strategic thinking during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, as the Soviet Union had control over the former East Bloc countries.
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Jun 13, 2023 · Sir Halford John Mackinder was an English geographer, academic and politician who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy. Mackinder wrote the book “The Geographical Pivot of History” in which he said that whoever could control the Eastern Europe- The “Heartland” would control the world.
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Sir Halford John Mackinder (hăl´fərd, məkĬn´dər), 1861–1947, English geopolitician. Educated at Oxford (1887–1905), he led in the revival of British geographical learning.
This article will discuss the contri bution of Halford John Mackinder, one of the earliest and most influential of the contributors to the discussion of how geography influences the power relationships in international relations. The article will first present Mackinder's views and argu.
