A History of the World in 47 Borders
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Krátky popis
'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish'
MIRANDA SAWYER'A novel and fascinating perspective on world
history' BILL BRYSON'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous,
or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOEPeople 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 endorsements 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 TINLINEIn the press:'[A] sprightly telling'
New Statesman'Open and inviting' History Today'Wonderfully nerdy -
and at times shocking' Byline Times'A diverting and informative
read' theartsdesk.com
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Elledge Jonn ,
Headline Publishing Group
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Elledge Jonn,
Headline Publishing Group
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