The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 globalisation, 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 the latter day, may become as hybridised as its forerunner. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2009. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white, and colour). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197562628 (ebook) 0197562620 (ebook) |