Carving up the globe : an atlas of diplomacy / introduction & contributing editor, Malise Ruthven ; contributors, Andrew Avenell, Henry Bewicke, Caroline Chapman, Elizabeth Wyse.
Ruthven, Malise, editor, contributor, writer of introduction.; Belknap Press, publisher.
2018
G1046.F1 C3 2018 (Mapit)
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Title Carving up the globe : an atlas of diplomacy / introduction & contributing editor, Malise Ruthven ; contributors, Andrew Avenell, Henry Bewicke, Caroline Chapman, Elizabeth Wyse.
ISBN 9780674976245 (hardcover)
067497624X (hardcover)
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Language English
Description 256 pages : color maps ; 29 cm
Call Number G1046.F1 C3 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.2022/3
Summary "Where do you draw the line? In the context of geopolitics, much hinges on the answer to that question. For thousands of years, it has been the work of diplomats to draw the lines in ways that were most advantageous to their leaders, fellow citizens, and sometimes themselves. Carving Up the Globe offers vivid documentation of their handiwork. With hundreds of full-color maps and other images, this atlas illustrates treaties that have determined the political fates of millions. In rich detail, it chronicles everything from ancient Egyptian and Hittite accords to the first Sino-Tibetan peace in 783 CE, the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, and the 2014 Minsk Protocol looming over the war in Ukraine. But there is more here than shifting territorial frontiers. Throughout history, diplomats have also drawn boundaries around valuable resources and used treaties to empower, liberate, and constrain. Carving Up the Globe encompasses these agreements, too, across land, sea, and air. Missile and nuclear pacts, environmental treaties, chemical weapons conventions, and economic deals are all carefully rendered. Led by Malise Ruthven, a team of experts provides lively historical commentary, which--together with finely crafted visuals--conjures the ceaseless ambition of princes and politicians. Whether they sought the glory and riches of empire or pursued hegemony, security, stability, and GDP within the modern international system, their efforts culminated in lines on a map--and the enormous real-life consequences those lines represent and enforce"--Dust jacket.
Note Relief shown by contours and shading.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Ruthven, Malise, editor, contributor, writer of introduction.
Added Corporate Author Belknap Press, publisher.
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