The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm de Blij.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Blij, Harm J., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197562628

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.