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The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World - Hardcover

Crawford, James

 
9781324037040: The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1324037040 ISBN 13: 9781324037040
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

The Edge of the PlainWhat happens on the ground when we impose lines on a map that contradict how humans have always lived—and moved? Crawford confronts that question from bloody territorial disputes in Mesopotamia, to the Sápmi lands of Scandinavia, the shifting boundaries of the Israel-Palestine conflict, efforts to build a wall on the United States-Mexico border, and the dangerous border crossings pursued by migrants into Europe.And yet the role of borders extends beyond specific sites of conflict. On the largest scale, borders define the limits of empire—the two walls in Britain that once represented the northwestern edge of the Roman Empire; the mythological eastern gate supposedly closed off by Alexander the Great; China’s virtual “Great Firewall.” On the smallest, human scale, cell walls are the last physical barrier against disease, after lines of quarantine have failed.The Edge of the PlainThe Edge of the Plain

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James Crawford is a historian, publisher, and broadcaster. He worked at Scotland's National Collection of Architecture and Archaeology for over a decade and is the writer and presenter of the BBC One documentary series Scotland from the Sky. He lives in Edinburgh.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1324037040
ISBN 13 
9781324037040
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
422
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