Regional Aspects of World Recovery

demobilizing mechanized forces and huge wartime industries. .Demobilizing men and machines, however difficult that may prove, is not likely to be as complex as demobilizing the ideas, concepts, and theories which led to these present wars. Recovery in these days of rapid transport and communication is bound to be a matter of world-wide dimension. It will affect all or nearly all of the two billion inhabitants of the earth. In simplest terms, world recovery should mean a recovery by all people of the opportunity to make a living, and, it is to be hoped, of an upward rather than a downward trend in the standard of living. This combination of widespread employment and a rising standard of living characterized many parts of the world in the period from 1870 to 1914. As we shall see presently, it was associated with the development of modern transport and with ideas which governed the use of transport facilities. Making a living and the standards of living are everyday matters of work and play. The conditions which govern them, however, are dynamic in that they are always changing in short-term circumstances and in long-term trends. Such circumstances and trends in part are local in character, but they also have both national and international qualities. In terms of regions, these conditions under which the game of daily life is played are both intraregional and interregional. Thus recovery in one section of the world is bound to be affected by conditions in other sections. Full recovery implies the establishment of a world order which promotes, rather than retards, the everyday welfare of the w rld's people

Geography · Global Political and Social Dynamics · Russia and Soviet political economy · World Systems and Global Transformations

• Charles C. Colby, 1884–1965

  Chauncy D Harris•Annals of the Association of…•1966

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