Politics of Place: Prisoners of Geography : Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Series #1) (Paperback)

from konastories

Joy's review: This is an excellent overview of the impact of geography on nations, politics, and the world as we know it today. Light on scholarship, but solid on insight and explanation into events and situations that are shaping today's world. If you want a better understanding of current event...

from jonerthon

I thought this would be a fun one from a very well-traveled journalist, and it turned out to be like the upper-level college course I wasn't ready to keep up with. Marshall jumped straight into warring ethnic groups and receding coastlines with little prior context, setting up strong arguments fo...

from BookAnonJeff

Interesting Concepts. Marshall presents an interesting case of geopolitics from a geographical perspective, and while quite a bit of it makes perfect sense, there are also times where he presents an idea as perfectly obvious... when it actually isn't/ wasn't. For example, he claims that once Amer...

from BookConcierge

Subtitle: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - or in U.K. editions: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics I've always been relatively good at geography, and yet I wouldn't say I'm particularly interested in or fascinated by the subject. Until now. ...

from untraveller

A pretty much excellent book with good (not great!) maps to reference during reading. Many areas of the world are included (Australia/New Zealand, SE Asia, and the Pacific islands are not) with good information although if a person travels much, much of this is obvious. The area of the world I th...