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Prisoners of Geography covers the geopolitical contexts and situations in several vital regions of the world. These include: Russia, China, the United States, Europe, the Arab World, South Asia (mainly focusing on the geopolitical anomalies of India and Pakistan), Africa, Japan and Korea, Latin America, and the Arctic Ocean (mainly to cover the geopolitics of the Arctic resources race).
978-1-78396-602-8. Preceded by. Prisoners of Geography. Website. Elliott & Thompson. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World is a book on geopolitics by the British author and journalist Tim Marshall. It was published by Elliott & Thompson in 2021 and is the sequel to his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography .
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz[ note 1] ( German pronunciation: [ˌkaʁl fɔn ˈklaʊ̯zəvɪt͡s] ⓘ; 1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831) [ 1] was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspects of waging war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege ...
1,500–2,500. Casualties and losses. 221 killed, 130 wounded [1] 100 total. 14 killed. 86 wounded [2] The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( / mænˈdɛlə / man-DEH-lə; [ 1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
God Sees the Truth, But Waits. " God Sees the Truth, But Waits " ( Russian: "Бог правду видит, да не скоро скажет", "Bog pravdu vidit da ne skoro skazhet", sometimes translated as Exiled to Siberia and The Long Exile) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent ...
The First Law of Geography, according to Waldo Tobler, is "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." [ 1] This first law is the foundation of the fundamental concepts of spatial dependence and spatial autocorrelation and is utilized specifically for the inverse distance weighting method for ...