Name: A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on our Maps
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Author: Jonn Elledge
ISBN: 9798893030822

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jonn Elledge

Publisher

Experiment

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

27.2x13.9x2.9 cm

ISBN13

9798893030822

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

Jonn Elledge (Author) · Experiment · Paperback

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

The Atlas of Extinct Countries

Many lines on the map are worth far more than a thousand words, going well beyond merely marking divisions between nations. In this eye-opening investigation into the most remarkable points on the map, a single boundary might, upon closer inspection, reveal eons of history from epic tales of conquest, treaties, and alliances to intimate, all-too-human stories of love, greed, and folly. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, none of the lines we know today were inevitable, and all might have looked quite different if not for the intricate interplay of chance and ambition.By listening to the stories these borders have to tell, we can learn how political identities are shaped, why the world's boundaries look the way they doand what they tell us about our world and ourselves. From the very first maps in Egypt to the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilization, from the profound shift in meaning of the Mason&Dixon line to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, and from the dark consequences of Detroit's city limits to the intriguing reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a singular look at human history told through its most spellbinding border stories.

Jonn Elledge

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Jonn Elledge colabora con Big Issue, The Guardian, Evening Standard y otros periódicos. Es columnista en el New Statesman, donde también fue editor, y en el que creó y dirigió la página web CityMetric, centrada en urbanismo. Pasó seis años escribiendo sobre ciudades, mapas y fronteras, además de ser el presentador del pódcast Skylines. Ha escrito tres libros, así como más de cien ediciones del boletín The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything. Vive en Londres.

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