DE BLIJ, Harm <br/><br/>
The Power of place  :  geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / 
Harm J De Blij 
 - Oxford, Dar es Salaam :   Oxford University Press,  c2009.  
 - xi, 280p. :  ill. (some col.), maps ;  24cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliography and index  
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>078-0-19-536770-6 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Globalization     Human geography 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.2 DEB