From: The Geographical Review | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: Nijman, Jan | COPYRIGHT 1998 American Geographical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By DAVID THOMAS MURPHY. XV and 338 pp.; maps, bibliog., index. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997. $39.00 (cloth), ISBN 0873385640.

The title of this book, borrowed from Adolf Grabowsky's Staat und Raum, depicts in almost moving fashion the role of geocentrism in German geopolitical thought. More than any other, the German variant of geopolitics constituted an intriguing blend of environmental determinism and romanticism. In the words of David Murphy, "The ear...