Power of Place Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape

Name: Power of Place Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
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ISBN: 9780195367706

ISBN-10: 0195367707

ISBN-13: 9780195367706

Edition: 2008

Authors: Harm de Blij, Harm J. De Blij

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In recent years a spate of books and articles have argued that the world today is so mobile, so interconnected and so integrated that it is, in one prominent assessment, flat. But as Harm de Blij contends in The Power of Place, geography continues to hold billions of people in an unrelenting grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively. From our "mother tongue" to our father's faith, from medical risks to natural hazards, where we start our journey has much to do with our destiny, and thus with our chances of overcoming the obstacles in our way. Incorporating a series of revealing maps, de Blij focuses on the rough…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.10" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.320



Preface


Acknowledgments



Globals, Locals, and Mobals



The Imperial Legacy of Language



The Fateful Geography of Religion



The Rough Topography of Human Health



Geography of Jeopardy



Places Open and Shut



Same Place, Divergent Destinies



Power and the City



Promise and Peril in the Provinces



Lowering the Barriers


Works Cited


Index