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The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
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The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate / Robert D. Kaplan.
ISBN
9781400069835 (acid-free paper)
1400069831 (acid-free paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Random House, c2012.
Physical Description
xxii, 403 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary
The insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the past look back at critical pivots in history and then look forward at the evolving global scene.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-378) and index.
Contents
From Bosnia to Baghdad
The revenge of geography
Herodotus and his successors
The Eurasian map
The Nazi distortion
The Rimland thesis
The allure of sea power
The "crisis of room"
The geography of European divisions
Russia and the independent heartland
The geography of Chinese power
India's geographical dilemma
The Iranian pivot
The former Ottoman Empire
Braudel, Mexico, and grand strategy.
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