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The revenge of geography: what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate

By Robert D , Random House.;Kaplan

Book information

Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House
ISBN
9780679604839, 0679604839, 9780812982220, 0812982223
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3732162 bytes)
Edition
Random House Trade paperback ed
Pages
XXII, 414, [1] s. : il. ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new 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, 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...

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