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The Power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm J De Blij

By:

DE BLIJ, Harm

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford, Dar es Salaam : Oxford University Press, c2009. Description: xi, 280p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24cmISBN:

078-0-19-536770-6

Subject(s):

Globalization Human geography

DDC classification:

22nd ed. 304.2 DEB

Summary: Books such as The Earth is Flat have argued enthusiastically that globalization brings opportunities to the world's poorest peoples. Not so, contends Harm de Blij. Accidents of geography continue to hold billions of people in an unrelenting grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively

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Includes bibliography and index

Books such as The Earth is Flat have argued enthusiastically that globalization brings opportunities to the world's poorest peoples. Not so, contends Harm de Blij. Accidents of geography continue to hold billions of people in an unrelenting grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively

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