Balance Sheets of Imperialism. Colonies Facts & Figures. Grover Clark. Spykman

Description: Balance Sheets of Imperialism. Colonies Facts & Figures. Grover Clark. Spykman The Balance Sheets of Imperialism Facts and Figures on Colonies by Grover Clark New York: Columbia University Press, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Gray cloth, quarto, 136 pages. The front pastedown has the distinctive bookplate of the noted political geography scholar Nicholas John Spykman. Grover Clark (Dec. 14, 1891 – July 17, 1938) was an American journalist and editor, and expert on Asian affairs. Early life Clark was born in Osaka, Japan, to American missionaries, he was educated at Oberlin College (BA 1914), the University of Chicago (MA 1918) and Columbia University (PhD candidate, 1936). Career Clark taught in Tokyo (1918–1920), then moved his base to Peking (Beijing) (1920–1930). He owned and edited the English language newspaper The Peking Leader. He also was a columnist for several American magazines and newspapers, such as the Christian Science Monitor. He moved to New York where he became a prolific writer and speaker on Asian affairs, with a regular column in Current History. He was a lecturer at Columbia University, and after 1937 a professor of economics at the University of Denver. He was a leader in the China International Famine Relief Commission. His books emphasized that colonies almost never produced a profit, but were undertaken for prestige—for "a place in the sun." One legal magazine reported in 1937: "Professor Clark is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities on the Far East. His knowledge of Far Eastern peoples and their problems is based on long personal contact....Professor Clark has been much in demand for lectures on Far Eastern affairs." Clark died of a heart attack while leading a scholarly panel at the University of Virginia. Nicholas John Spykman (pronounced "Speak-man", 13 October 1893 – 26 June 1943) was an American political scientist who was one of the founders of the classical realist school in American foreign policy, transmitting Eastern European political thought to the United States. A Sterling Professor of International Relations, teaching as part of the Institute for International Studies at Yale University, one of his prime concerns was making his students geographically literate, as geopolitics was impossible without geographic understanding. His work on geopolitics and geostrategy led him to be to known as the "godfather of containment." Early life Spykman was born on 13 October 1893 in Amsterdam. He attended Delft University and the University of Cairo. Career He worked as a journalist in various parts of the world during much of the 1910s and also served as a diplomatic assistant for the Netherlands in Egypt and the Dutch East Indies. He then came to the United States around 1920 to enter a doctoral program at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1921, a master's degree in 1922, and a Ph.D. in 1923. The subject of his dissertation, which he subsequently revised for publication, was Georg Simmel. He then was an instructor in political science and sociology there from 1923 to 1925. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1928. Professor In 1925, he came to Yale University, where he was an assistant professor of international relations. He became a full professor in 1928 and the chair of the university's department of international relations in 1935. Also in 1935, he was a co-founder of the Yale Institute of International Studies and was its first director. He held that position until 1940, when he became ill and relinquished it. Author Spykman published two books on foreign policy. America's Strategy in World Politics was published in 1942, soon after the entry of the United States into World War II. Concerned with the balance of power, he argued that isolationism, which relied on the oceans to protect the United States ("hemispheric" or "quarter defense"), was bound to fail. His object was to prevent another US retreat, as what occurred after World War I. Isaiah Bowman commented in 1942, "On grounds of merit and public value America’s Strategy in World Politics should be read in not less than a million American home. Every government official responsible for policy should read it once a year for the next twenty years—even if he may not agree with some of the remedies proposed." The Geography of the Peace was published the year after Spykman's death. He explained his geostrategy and argued that the balance of power in Eurasia directly affected US security. In his writings on geography and foreign policy, Spykman was somewhat of a geographical determinist. Since geography was "the most fundamentally conditioning factor because of its relative permanence," it is of primary relevance in analyzing a state's potential foreign policy. Death He died of cancer on 26 June 1943, at the age of 49, in New Haven, Connecticut. Personal life He was married to the children's novelist E. C. Spykman. CONDITION: Very Good+. (Covers have light soil and sunning. Contents are Near Fine with tiny spot on front endpaper, age toned paper. Spykman stamp on front endpaper.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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