Compass of the world : a symposium on political geography,
Contents include: W.A.M. Burden "American air transport faces north"; G.B. Cressey "Siberia's role in Soviet strategy"; A.J. Dimond "The Aleutians"; G.B. Grosvenor "The northward course of aviation"; W.A. Pratt "Petroleum in the north"; E.C. Rop...
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1.
- The new world: geography and geopolitics:
- Archibald MacLeish: The image of victory
- Edmund A. Walsh: Geopolitics and international morals
- Isaiah Bowman: Geography vs. geopolitics
- Quincy Wright: The balance of power
- S. Whittemore Boggs: The peaceful solution of boundary problems
- ch. 2.
- New directions and skyways:
- Richard E. Harrison and Hans W. Weigert: World view and strategy
- Eugene Staley: The myth of the continents
- Charles Hurd: World airways
- Editors of Fortune: The logic of the air
- William A.M. Burden: American air transport faces north
- ch. 3.
- Reflections on the heartland:
- J. Russell Smith: Heartland, grassland, and farmland
- Sir Halford J. Mackinder: The round world and the winning of the peace
- Ellsworth Huntington: The influence of geography and climate upon history
- James Fairgrieve: Geography and world power
- Richard Hartshorne: The United States and the "shatter zone" of Europe
- ch. 4.
- The northward course:
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson: The North American Arctic
- Anthony J. Dimond: The Aleutians
- Griffith Taylor: Canada's role in geopolitics
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Arctic supply line
- Graham B. Grosvenor: The northward course of aviation
- Wallace E. Pratt: Petroleum in the North
- Ernest C. Ropes: The Soviet Arctic and the future
- George B. Cressey: Siberia's role in Soviet strategy
- ch. 5.
- Reflections on Asia:
- Owen Lattimore: The inland crossroads of Asia
- Hans W. Weigert: Asia through Haushofer's glasses
- ch. 6.
- The shifting balance of manpower:
- Quincy Wright: Population trends and international relations
- Frank W. Notestein: Fundamentals of population change in Europe and the Soviet Union
- Frank Lorimer: Population movements in imperial Russia and in the Soviet Union.