A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders - Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps

A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps



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English | October 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 189101157X | 368 pages | True EPUB | 20.08 MB

A fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps

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 human folly.