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| No one understood better the important relationship between geography and world history than the great British geographer, Halford John Mackinder. . . . Mackinder had a strong curiosity about natural phenomena, . . . a love of the history of travel and exploration, an interest in international affairs, and a passion for making maps. . . . Mackinder pointed out that although the physical facts of geography have remained substantially the same during
recorded human history, it was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that the globe became, in political terms, a closed system. [FULL TEXT] It is even possible that the United States will cease to exist as we know it over the next century, either because Mexican immigrants reconquer the Southwest, or because American society fragments into hostile ethnic and special interest groups, or because of some unforeseen breakdown in our constitutional government. Conversely, the U.S. may cease to exist as we know it by merging into some larger entity, for instance a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Association uniting the European Union and North America. [FULL TEXT]
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