The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape
- ISBN-10
- 0199754322
- ISBN-13
- 9780199754328
- Series
- The Power of Place
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Harm J. de Blij
Description
Harm de Blij contends in this book that geography continues to hold us all in an unrelenting grip and that we are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively.
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- 2008-07-21
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