PDF《Author(s): Karl A. Sinnhuber》

(1948, 40). I have been unableto tracea publicationby Sir Halford MackinderwhichmakesthiscleardistinctionandI do not thinkthathis '

innerormarginalcrescent'

(1904, 435), whichagainis partof a world-wideconcept,shouldbe interpreted in the senseof con- stitutinga CentralEurope. In factthe onlyclearindicationthathe at one timerecognizedthe exist- ence of a CentralEuropeseemsto be the fact of his beingthe editorof the seriesTheregionsof the worldwhich includesthe volume CentralEuropeby JosephPartsch. It is difficultto estimatenow how muchcreditforthisparticular conceptof CentralEuropeshouldgo to theeditorandhowmuch to the author,but in the firstinstanceit seemslargelyto be due to SirHalfordMackinderas is in- dicatedby thefollowingremarkby Partschin thepreface:'

. .. he [theeditor]andI wereagreedthat, in orderto securetheunityof thewholework,theplananddivisionof thematerialmustbesettledby theeditorfortheguidanceof his fellowworkers'

(1903,ix).

7 '

O'

commenceet oiufinit1'

Europe centrale?... Ellen'

est en effetni un Etatni un assemblage d'

Etats. Elle n'

a ve6uque dansl'

imaginationdes conqu6rantsoi desecrivains'

(1926, 8). 8(1948, 28);

and on p. 31, '

Since CentralEurope as conceived by modern geographershas gone....'

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