Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation

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Carl Schmitt, "Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation"
English | ISBN: 0914386565 | 2015 | 185 pages | PDF | 42 MB

Originally published in 1942, at the height of the Second World War, Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation recounts Carl Schmitt's view of world history "as a history of the battles of sea powers against land powers and of land powers against sea powers." Schmitt here unfolds his view of world history from the Peloponnesian War to European colonial expansion to the birth pangs of capitalism, while polemically setting Nazi Germany as a continental land power against Britain and the United States as its maritime enemies. In

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