Geographies of an Imperial Power

These developments, moreover, are still relevant today, as modern states struggle to understand the contemporary world and to reconcile ideologies, interests, and geopolitics in a world that is globalized

GEOGRAPHY, POWER, WORLD—each is a potent word. What they represented were closely related in the eighteenth century and should be linked in order to offer an account of key developments then

geography and geopolitics remain highly significant today, and there has been a recent revival in writing about geopolitics