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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Elledge, Jonn. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : A history of the world in 47 borders [Texte imprimé] : the stories behind the lines on our maps / Jonn Elledge
Publication : London ; Wildfire : Headline Publishing Group, 2024
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-356 p.) : ill., cartes ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [329]-343. Index
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre : - Autre forme du titre : A history of the world in forty-seven borders- Autre forme du titre : A brief history of the world in 47 borders. Surprising stories behind the lines on our maps
Sujet(s) : Régions frontalières Cartographie -- Histoire Frontières -- Histoire
Sujet(s) géographique(s) : Monde
Classement géographique : Monde (parties)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781472298508 (rel.) : 25 GBPEAN 9781472298508
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb475645586
Notice n° : FRBNF47564558
Résumé : "People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about the scale of human folly. From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders." - couverture