The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm de Blij.
2009
GF41 .D42 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm de Blij.
Author
De Blij, Harm J.
ISBN
9780195367706
0195367707
0195367707
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 280 p. : col. ill., maps (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
GF41 .D42 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.2
Summary
"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 terrain of the world's human and environmental geography. The world's continuing partition into core and periphery, and apartheid-like obstructions to migration from the former to the latter, help explain why, in this age of globalization, less than 3 percent of "mobals" live in countries other than where they were born. Maps of language distribution suggest why English, the Latin of today may become as hybridized as its forerunner. The fateful map of religion casts a shadow of what he calls "endarkenment" over the future of the planet in a time of increasingly destructive weaponry."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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 space, divergent destinies
Power and the city
Promise and peril in the provinces
Lowering the barriers.
The imperial legacy of language
The fateful geography of religion
The rough topography of human health
Geography of jeopardy
Places open and shut
Same space, divergent destinies
Power and the city
Promise and peril in the provinces
Lowering the barriers.