The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm de Blij.
The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm de Blij.
The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm de Blij.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
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N304.2/ 189
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 280 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Globals, locals and mobals -- The imperial legacy of language -- The fateful geography of regligion -- The rough topography of human health -- Geography of jeopardy -- Places open and shut -- Same space, divergent destinies -- Power and the city -- Promise and peril in the provinces -- Lowering the...
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2009.
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"Incorporating a series of revealing maps, de Blij focuses on the rough terrain of the world's human and environmental geography. The world's continuing partition into core and periphery, and apartheid-like obstructions to migration from the former to the latter, help explain why, in this age of globalization, less than 3 percent of "mobals" live i...
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The power of place : geography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape / Harm de Blij.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2009.
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N304.2/ 189
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74VMQ5J7pOOg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQ5J7pOOg
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ISBN
9780195367706
DDC
304.2
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991000641359702626
