Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books including Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures (IUP, 2015); Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice (IUP, 2015); The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World; War and Technology (IUP, 2013); and Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871 (IUP, 2011).

• PrefaceAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Geopolitics before the Term: Spatiality and Frontiers3. Geopolitics before the Term: Maps4. Geopolitics of British Power 1500-1815: A Case Study5. Geography and Imperialism: The World in the Nineteenth Century6. Geopolitics and the Age of Imperialism, 1890-19327. Nazi Geopolitics and World War II, 1933-19458. Geopolitics and the Cold War9. Geopolitics Since 199010. The Geopolitics of the Future11. ConclusionsSelected Further ReadingIndex

Solidly grounded in many decades of historical and interdisciplinary readings, [Black] considers the complex relations between power and space, and their perception, from a plurality of angles, ranging from the history of international relations and cartography to diplomatic and military history, to that of science and technology, etc.Spring 2017(Journal of Interdisciplinary History) The book is a must read for those involved in international relations, strategic studies, geography, political and economic history, as well as government and military leaders. It is a treasure trove of thought for academics, for scholars to debate and advance.3/30/17(Military Review) In Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance, Black provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the subject based on an almost unsurpassable range of reference and a strong commitment to communicating the richness of the field.(International History Review) Every scholar working within the broad field of geopolitics should read this book for two reasons. First, it is a well-written and detailed historical account of the ideas and practice of (mainly) state-centric geopolitics. Second, it is a direct attack on the axioms and methods of the dominant form of contemporary geopolitical analysis.(Journal of Historical Geography)