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The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
- Title
- The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate / Robert D. Kaplan.
- Author
- Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [2012], ©2012.
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 403 pages; 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781400069835 (acid-free paper)
- 1400069831 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2012000655
- 99950585843
- OCLC
- 769425391
- ocn769425391
- SCSB-9691184
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries