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Cargando... Die Macht der Geographie: Wie sich Weltpolitik anhand von 10 Karten erklären lässt (2015 original; edición 2017)por Tim Marshall (Autor), Julian Mehne (Narrador), Argon Verlag (Publisher)
Información de la obraPrisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics por Tim Marshall (2015)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book should be a must read for all global citizens. Learning about geography is important ... but learning about the historical, political, and economic impact (and decisions) that geography had on nations is entertaining AND informative. Each chapter focuses on a different part of the world to keep your attention and the information relevant. The author is very scientific in his writing which should make this readable by all. (2.5, rounded up to 3) This was supposed to be a primer on maps and geography first, and how it relates to history later. What should have been a compelling read is reduced to short paragraphs of text which look like they have been lifted straight from Wikipedia, which is not a compliment. Two glaring flaws jump at you once you finish this book. The first being that Marshall's treatment is superficial at best and unconvincing at worst - I sometimes felt that even the author wasn't convinced that rivers and mountains have influenced history to the extent that he describes. Secondly, Marshall is an unabashed neoliberal - his beliefs are that Latin America is in dire straits because they had socialism, colonialism happened and we should all get over it, and trust for American hegemony is very much implicit within the text. All in all, the book is a decent introductory read if you are a novice on geopolitics, but if one is already aware of what is going on in the world and wanted to know the ground reality, as I did, then this book is not a good starting point. There are some good things to be said about the book but the consistently glossing over details and the pretending that Australia doesn't exist does it no favours. The final chapter, where Marshall states that humanity is so divided that we cannot contemplate travelling the universe as representatives of mankind but will still think of ourselves as Indians, Americans, Russians or Chinese – is a sobering one. This is the only place where he made me believe in the prisoners of geography argument – and better late than never, I suppose. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Hay un límite a lo que los hombres pueden decidir. A menudo, se trata de un límite real, físico. Montañas, ríos, mares y hormigón se interponen entre lo que los dirigentes han querido para sus países a lo largo de la historia y lo que han podido conseguir. Para entender y explicar lo que ocurre en el mundo solemos referirnos a personas, ideas y movimientos políticos; pero sin los condicionantes que impone la geografía el resultado de semejante aproximación sencillamente está incompleto. Muchos de los accidentes geográficos del planeta seguirán existiendo en el futuro. De aquí a un siglo, Rusia continuará mirando con angustia hacia el oeste, y seguirá encontrando allí una planicie difícil de defender. La cordillera del Himalaya continuará separando a India y Pakistán e impidiendo en gran parte un enfrentamiento directo. Florida continuará siendo el guardián que vigile la entrada y salida al golfo de México, pertenezca al país que pertenezca. Con ese punto de partida, y a través de diez mapas —de Rusia, China, Estados Unidos, Europa, África, Oriente Medio, India/Pakistán, Corea/Japón, Latinoamérica y el Ártico—, Tim Marshall mira al pasado, al presente y al futuro de la humanidad en este libro, una obra de investigación excepcional y accesible, de enorme éxito en Reino Unido y Alemania, que ha abierto los ojos de muchos acerca de uno de los mayores (y más ignorados) factores que determinan la historia mundial. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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However, a lot of the author's observations and even predictions held up reasonably well.
The maps could have been better IMO, but that's true of every geography book I read. ( )