The heroic earth: The flowering of geopolitical thought in Weimar Germany, 1924-1933

This work examines the popularization of geopolitical ideas in Germany in the decade before the Nazi seizure of power. It opens by tracing the reception of geopolitical ideas in Germany in the late nineteenth century, and then examines the dimensions of geopolitical rhetoric in the Weimar period. Geopolitical language focused on the concept of geodeterminism, the belief that geography exercises a decisive formative influence on states and societies. The work also discusses the geopolitical concept of the state as an organism, the consequences of a geodeterminist approach to politics, society, culture and history, the relationship of geopolitical thought to Weimar modernism, and such recurrent geopolitical themes as the role of struggle in state relations, the role of geographic factors in Germany's demographic crisis, and the impact of modern technology on geopolitics.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Murphy, David Thomas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Schroeder, Paul W.

• History, European
• Geography
• History, Modern

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Murphy, David Thomas

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9236548
(UMI)AAI9236548

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21574