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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 48 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=3mm, Gew.=82gr, [GR: 25500 - TB/Geschichte], [SW: - History - Gene… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 48 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=3mm, Gew.=82gr, [GR: 25500 - TB/Geschichte], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I THE CONTROL OF THE TROPICS At the present time the foremost subject occupying the attention of the American people is one which involves the question of the future government of two of the richest portions of the tropical regions of the earth. In England, at the same time, the public mind is engaged with many serious international questions. It is curious to reflect that nearly all of them, as well as the majority of those which have recently been under discussion, also relate, either directly or indirectly, to the future government of tropical or sub-tropical regions of the earth. Siam, Burma, East Africa, the Niger territories, Egypt, and we may include China, have all provided questions which come under this head. At the end of the eighteenth century there was drawing to a close a vast rivalry of theWestern Powers of Europe. The statesmen and soldiers who took part therein seemed to themselves to be occupied over and above everything else with questions of thrones, and dynasties, and adjustment of the map of Europe. How comparatively trivial such questions look now, and to what still more dwarfed proportions are they almost certainly destined to shrink in the future, beside the vast world- shaping rivalry which lay behind them all ? the struggle of the Western races for the larger inheritance of the future. It is not in adjustments of the map of Europe, however important they may have seemed at the time, that we have had the significant historical events of the last two centuries. The events of real importance, those which are destined to shape and control the tendencies of history into the distant future, are those connected with the struggle for, and the occupation by the winning sections of the Western peoples of, those regions of the world where the white races c...<

2009, ISBN: 0217751334

Cambridge Scholars Publishing August 2009, 48 S., Kartoniert / Broschiert Sprache: eng

ISBN: 0217751334

The Control of the Tropics Author :Benjamin Kidd 9780217751339 0217751334

ISBN: 9780217751339

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