TY - BOOK AU - DE BLIJ, Harm TI - The Power of place: geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape SN - 078-0-19-536770-6 U1 - 304.2 DEB 22nd ed. PY - 2009///. CY - Oxford, Dar es Salaam : PB - Oxford University Press KW - Globalization Human geography N1 - Includes bibliography and index N2 - 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 ER -