Book contents
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- From Influences of Geographic Environment on the Basis of Ratzel’s System of Anthropo-Geography (1911)
- From “The Fascist World War (Ethiopia and Spain)” (1935)
- From The Mediterranean in Politics (1938)
- From Toward a New Order of Sea Power (co-authored with Harold Sprout) (1940)
- From “What We Must Now Do about India” (1942)
- From “The Question of War” (1958–1959)
- From Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (1960)
- From Vietnam (1967)
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Sylvia Pankhurst
- Elizabeth Monroe
- Margaret Sprout
- Claudia Jones
- Hannah Arendt
- Roberta Wohlstetter
- Mary McCarthy
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Ellen Churchill Semple
from 2 - Geopolitics and War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- From Influences of Geographic Environment on the Basis of Ratzel’s System of Anthropo-Geography (1911)
- From “The Fascist World War (Ethiopia and Spain)” (1935)
- From The Mediterranean in Politics (1938)
- From Toward a New Order of Sea Power (co-authored with Harold Sprout) (1940)
- From “What We Must Now Do about India” (1942)
- From “The Question of War” (1958–1959)
- From Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (1960)
- From Vietnam (1967)
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Sylvia Pankhurst
- Elizabeth Monroe
- Margaret Sprout
- Claudia Jones
- Hannah Arendt
- Roberta Wohlstetter
- Mary McCarthy
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
Man is a product of the earth’s surface. This means not merely that he is a child of the earth, dust of her dust; but that the earth has mothered him, fed him, set him tasks, directed his thoughts, confronted him with difficulties that have strengthened his body and sharpened his wits, given him his problems of navigation or irrigation, and at the same time whispered hints for their solution. She has entered into his bone and tissue, into his mind and soul. On the mountains she has given him leg muscles of iron to climb the slope; along the coast she has left these weak and flabby, but given him instead vigorous development of chest and arm to handle his paddle or oar. In the river valley she attaches him to the fertile soil, circumscribes his ideas and ambitions by a dull round of calm, exacting duties, narrows his outlook to the cramped horizon of his farm. Up on the windswept plateaus, in the boundless stretch of the grasslands and the waterless tracts of the desert, where he roams with his flocks from pasture to pasture and oasis to oasis, where life knows much hardship but escapes the grind of drudgery, where the watching of grazing herds gives him leisure for contemplation, and the wide-ranging life a big horizon, his ideas take on a certain gigantic simplicity; religion becomes monotheism. God becomes one, unrivalled like the sand of the desert and the grass of the steppe, stretching on and on without break or change. Chewing over and over the cud of his simple belief as the one food of his unfed mind, his faith becomes fanaticism; his big special ideas, born of that ceaseless regular wandering, outgrow the land that bred them and bear their legitimate fruit in wide imperial conquests.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 87 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022