Ian Morris

Geography Is Destiny (eBook, ePUB)

Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel

'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming 10,000 years of history into a single book' Robert Colvile, The Times

For hundreds of years, Britannia ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set - but for
thousands of years before that, Britain had been no more than a cluster of unimportant islands off Europe's north-west shore.

Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, Ian Morris shows how much the meaning of Britain's geography has changed in the 10,000 years since rising seas began separating the Isles
from the Continent, and how these changing meanings have determined Britons' destinies.

From being merely Europe's fractious, feuding periphery - divided by customs, language and landscape, and always at the mercy of more powerful continental neighbours - the British turned themselves into a United Kingdom and put it at the centre of global politics, commerce and culture.

But as power and wealth now shift from the West towards China, what fate awaits Britain in the twenty-first century?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782833512
• Artikelnr.: 56794187

Autorenporträt

Ian Morris teaches at Stanford University and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the bestselling author of Why the West Rules - For Now and War: What is it Good For? He has won awards for teaching and writing and has directed archaeological digs in Greece and Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: The Hereford Map, 6000 BCE-1497 CE
1. Thatcher's Law, 6000-4000 BCE
2. Europe's Poor Cousin, 4000-55 BCE
3. Empire, 55 BCE-410 CE
4. The Original European Union, 410-973
5. United Kingdoms, 973-1497
Part II: Mackinder's Map, 1497-1945
6. Englexit, 1497-1713
7. The Pivot, 1713-1815
8. Wider Still and Wider, 1815-65
9. The New World Steps Forth, 1865-1945
Part III : The Money Map, 1945-2103
10. The Very Point of Junction, 1945-91
11. Keep Calm and Carry On, 1992-2103
12. Can't Go Home Again, 2017
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
List of Illustrations
Index