Geography is destiny : Britain and the world : a 10,000-year history /
Morris, Ian, 1960-
Geography is destiny : Britain and the world : a 10,000-year history / Geography is destiny : Britain and the world : a ten thousand year history Ian Morris. - First American edition. - 570 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-537) and index.
Introduction -- Part I: The Hereford map, 6,000 BCE-1497 CE. Thatcher's law, 6000-4000 BCE ; Europe's poor cousin, 4000-55 BCE ; Empire, 55 BCE-410 CE ; The original European union, 410-973 ; United kingdoms, 973-1497 -- Part II: Mackinder's map, 1497-1945. Englexit, 1497-1713 ; The pivot, 1713-1815 ; Wider still and wider, 1815-65 ; The new world steps forth, 1865-1945 -- Part III: The money map, 1945-2103. The very point of junction, 1945-91 ; Keep calm and carry on, 1992-2013 ; Can't go home again, 2017.
"In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world"-- For the first seventy-five hundred years, the British were never more than bit players at the western edge of a European stage, struggling to find a role among bigger, richer, and more sophisticated continental rivals. By 1500 CE, however, new kinds of ships and governments had turned the European stage into an Atlantic one. With the English Channel now functioning as a barrier, England transformed the British Isles into a United Kingdom that created a worldwide empire. Since 1900, thanks to rapid globalization, Britain has been overshadowed by American, European, and-- increasingly-- Chinese actors. Morris describes how technology and organization have steadily enlarged Britain's arena, and how its people have tried to turn this to their advantage. -- adapted from jacket
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40031215799
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Great Britain--Relations--Europe.
Europe--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Civilization.
Great Britain--History.
Geography is destiny : Britain and the world : a 10,000-year history / Geography is destiny : Britain and the world : a ten thousand year history Ian Morris. - First American edition. - 570 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-537) and index.
Introduction -- Part I: The Hereford map, 6,000 BCE-1497 CE. Thatcher's law, 6000-4000 BCE ; Europe's poor cousin, 4000-55 BCE ; Empire, 55 BCE-410 CE ; The original European union, 410-973 ; United kingdoms, 973-1497 -- Part II: Mackinder's map, 1497-1945. Englexit, 1497-1713 ; The pivot, 1713-1815 ; Wider still and wider, 1815-65 ; The new world steps forth, 1865-1945 -- Part III: The money map, 1945-2103. The very point of junction, 1945-91 ; Keep calm and carry on, 1992-2013 ; Can't go home again, 2017.
"In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world"-- For the first seventy-five hundred years, the British were never more than bit players at the western edge of a European stage, struggling to find a role among bigger, richer, and more sophisticated continental rivals. By 1500 CE, however, new kinds of ships and governments had turned the European stage into an Atlantic one. With the English Channel now functioning as a barrier, England transformed the British Isles into a United Kingdom that created a worldwide empire. Since 1900, thanks to rapid globalization, Britain has been overshadowed by American, European, and-- increasingly-- Chinese actors. Morris describes how technology and organization have steadily enlarged Britain's arena, and how its people have tried to turn this to their advantage. -- adapted from jacket
9780374157272 0374157278
40031215799
2021061234
Great Britain--Relations--Europe.
Europe--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Civilization.
Great Britain--History.