The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape

Books such as The Earth is Flat have argued enthusiastically that globalization brings opportunities to the world's poorest peoples. Not so, contends Harm de Blij. Accidents of geography continue to hold billions of people in an unrelenting grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively

• | By (Author): Harm De Blij
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0199754322
• | ISBN-13: 9780199754328