Earth Shapers (eBook)

How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World

MAXIM SAMSON (Autor)

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2025
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-80081-525-4 (ISBN)

Infos

'A riposte to the idea that geography is destiny' FINANCIAL TIMES'Samson demonstrates how we are not always prisoners of geography but, increasingly, its masters' LEWIS DARTNELL'This is a book that reshapes our story of global human geography' DANNY DORLING'Accessible and erudite, this is an original look at the geography of connection' LEWIS BASTONMountains, meridians, rivers and borders; these are some of the features that carve up the world on our maps and in our minds. But geography is far less set in stone than we might believe and, over time, we have become experts at reshaping our surroundings.From the Qhapaq Nan, South America's 'Great Road', and the Panama Canal to Mozambique's railways and Korea's sacred Baekdu-daegan mountain range, Samson explores how we mould the world around us. And how, as we etch our needs onto the natural landscape, we alter the course of history.An immense work of cultural geography touching on ecology, sociology, history and politics, Earth Shapers argues that, far from being constrained by geography, we are instead its creators.

Autor

Maxim Samson is a geographer and the author of Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World. An award-winning educator and researcher, he has taught and presented keynote lectures at universities in the United Kingdom, the United States and Indonesia. He is an adjunct professor at DePaul University in Chicago, specialising in cultural geography and religion. In his free time, he enjoys long-distance running and exploring the culture and language of his favourite country, Indonesia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2025
• Zusatzinfo: b/w 8 integrated maps
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Atlas Obscura • atlas of extinct countries • atlas of imagined places • atlas of improbable places • Atlas of the Unexpected • Atlas of Unusual Borders • border wars • Geography • history of world trade in maps • Maps • nowherelands • Prisoners of Geography • psychogeography • Royal Geographical Society • terra incongnita • The Phantom Atlas • Tim Marshall
• ISBN-10: 1-80081-525-5 / 1800815255
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80081-525-4 / 9781800815254