A History of the World in 47 Borders
The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
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Product details:
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Date of Publication 25 April 2024
- ISBN 9781472298515
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 230x152x32 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 565
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Long description:
'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER
'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOE
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about the scale of human folly.
From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.
More praise for 47 BORDERS:
'Fascinating and hugely entertaining' MARINA HYDE
'You'll never look at a map the same way again' STEPHEN BUSH
'[A] clever, confounding history' PATRICK MAGUIRE
'A witty grand tour' DORIAN LYNSKEY
'Warm, funny and sharply political' PHIL TINLINE
