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A fascinating manifesto, proposing that the world should be split into smaller regions to distribute power more evenly.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface to the 1986 Edition
Foreword by Neal Ascherson
Foreword by Richard Body
Introduction

The Philosophies of Misery
The Power Theory of Aggression
Disunion Now
Tyranny in a Small-State World
The Physics of Politics: The Philosophic Argument
Individual and Average Man: The Political Argument
The Glory of the Small: The Cultural Argument
The Efficiency of the Small: The Economic Argument
Union Through Division: The Administrative Argument
The Elimination of Great Powers: Can It Be Done?
But Will It Be Done?
The American Empire

Appendices: The Principle of Federation Presented in Maps
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Leopold Kohr, an economist by profession, was the originator of the concept of 'the human scale', an idea later popularised by his friend, E. F. Schumacher in his bestselling book Small is Beautiful. Born near Salzberg in 1909, Kohr held academic positions at many universities.

Reviews

We have now reached the point Kohr warned about... the point where 'instead of growth serving life, life must now serve growth, perverting the very purpose of existence'. Kohr's crisis of bigness is upon us
*Paul Kingsnorth, The Guardian*

This is the most important book written by the most original political thinker of the 20th century.
*Neal Ascherson, from the foreword*