Geography and World Power (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

James Fairgrieve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330430735 ISBN 13 : 9781330430736

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

How geography shapes history—and power—across the world This book argues that the course of history is guided by geography and energy. It explains why certain lands, seas, and routes have mattered so much to civilizations and empires.

This edition presents a clear framework: how energy use, technology, and strategic location drive political and military outcomes. It uses accessible examples to show how nations win at sea, trade, and conquest by understanding place, climate, and movement.

- Learn how geography helps explain the rise of great powers and the endurance of sea power
- See how energy, technology, and institutions interact to shape history
- Discover why navigation, trade routes, and military positions mattered in different eras
- Explore the idea that major world events follow patterns linked to geography

Ideal for readers curious about why maps and locations influence politics, war, and trade. If you enjoy big-picture history that connects place to power, this book is for you.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

All the worlds a stage. In this volume an endeavour is made to tell a coherent story and show that there is really some order in the apparently disorderly happenings on this planet. Dealing with world history and geography in such small compass, it is obvious that there must be many omissions. Opinions may differ as to what omissions ought to be made, and some things may not present themselves in the same light as they do to the author, but the correctness of the thesis as a whole does not depend on the accuracy of this or that statement or view. In particular it may be as well to emphasise the fact that while the book deals with world history, it deals with only one side of it. I ts special concern, in fact, is rather with the setting of the stage than with the action of the drama. I ts aim is to point out how the stage was set at different epochs in the history of the world, and specially how the stage has been set for that act of the drama now being played. At a cursory glance, then, the book may possibly appear to be materialistic, but it is materialistic only in the sense that from the nature of the case it deals with material things. The ways in which geographical conditions affect the actors are traced out, but those spiritual aspects of the drama which do not exhibit the geographical control are naturally not referred to. This does not mean that they do not exist. J. F.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Geography and World Power

This book is written to show how the history of the world has been controlled by those conditions and phenomena which we class together under the title of Geography, and to point out which are the really essential geographical facts by noting those which have most effectively controlled the history. In that sentence there are three words about whose meaning we must be quite clear. They are History, controlled, Geography.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330430735
• ISBN 13: 9781330430736
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 370
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