Geography in Human Destiny
Author : Roderick Peattie
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804613279
Author : Roderick Peattie
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804613279
Author : Roderick Peattie
Publisher :
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1945
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Luke Gallup
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821383671
For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that, since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that geographic interpretations of development were deterministic, or even racist, made the subject a virtual taboo in academic and policymaking circles alike. 'Is Geography Destiny?' challenges that premise and joins a growing body of literature studying the links between geography and development. Focusing on Latin America, the book argues that based on a better understanding of geography, public policy can help control or channel its influence toward the goals of economic and social development.
Author : Roderick Peattie
Publisher :
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release :
Category : Economic geography
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Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 178283351X
'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel 'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming 10,000 years of history into a single book' Robert Colvile, The Times For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but for thousands of years before that, Britain had been no more than a cluster of unimportant islands off Europe's north-west shore. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, Ian Morris shows how much the meaning of Britain's geography has changed in the 10,000 years since rising seas began separating the Isles from the Continent, and how these changing meanings have determined Britons' destinies. From being merely Europe's fractious, feuding periphery - divided by customs, language and landscape, and always at the mercy of more powerful continental neighbours - the British turned themselves into a United Kingdom and put it at the centre of global politics, commerce and culture. But as power and wealth now shift from the West towards China, what fate awaits Britain in the twenty-first century?
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812982223
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.
Author : Harm J. De Blij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199754322
Harm de Blij contends in this book that geography continues to hold us all in an unrelenting grip and that we are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively.
Author : John Luke Gallup
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821354515
This publication challenges the premise that geographical influences need not be taken into account in economic development issues. It argues that, based on a better understanding of geography, public policy can help control or channel its influence toward the goals of economic and social development and poverty reduction. Using both an international perspective and a case study approach for individual countries, the book examines geographical factors, such as land productivity, the presence of endemic diseases, natural disaster frequency and market access, in order to explore development inequalities between and within Latin American countries. It also considers policy options for overcoming the limitations of geography for the region.
Author : Harm de Blij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199913749
"This work was first published by Oxford University Press in 2005 as Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America."
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520225787
"There is no question that David Harvey's work has been one of the most important, influential, and imaginative contributions to the development of human geography since the Second World War. . . . His readings of Marx are arresting and original--a remarkably fresh return to the foundational texts of historical materialism."--Derek Gregory, author of Geographical Imaginations