LEADER 04311nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910823652103321 005 20240418145319.0 010 $a0-19-975855-7 010 $a0-19-756262-0 010 $a1-281-52940-0 010 $a9786611529406 010 $a0-19-971005-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537191 035 $a(EBL)415953 035 $a(OCoLC)437096383 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000225364 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197657 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225364 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10249771 035 $a(PQKB)10347765 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415953 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341729 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415953 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10254366 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL152940 035 $a(PPN)175185921 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537191 100 $a20080104d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe power of place$egeography, destiny, and globalization's rough landscape /$fHarm de Blij 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (295 pages) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online. 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2009. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index. 327 $aGlobals, locals, and mobals -- The imperial legacy of language -- The fateful geography of religion -- The rough topography of human health -- Geography of jeopardy -- Places open and shut -- Same place, divergent destinies -- Power and the city -- Promise and peril in the provinces -- Lowering the barriers. 330 $aThe world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively. From our "mother tongue" to our father's faith, from medical risks to natural hazards, where we start our journey has much to do with our destiny. Hundreds of millions of farmers in the river basins of Asia and Africa, and tens of millions of shepherds in isolated mountain valleys from the Andes to Kashmir, all live their lives much as their distant ancestors did, remote from the forces of globalization. Incorporating a series of persuasive maps, De Blij describes the tremendously varied environments across the planet and shows how migrations between them are comparatively rare. De Blij also looks at the ways we are redefining place so as to make its power even more potent than it has been, with troubling implications. --$cPublisher. 330 8 $aWe are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively. From our "mother tongue" to our father's faith, from medical risks to natural hazards, where we start our journey has much to do with our destiny, and thus with our chances of overcoming the obstacles in our way. Incorporating a series of revealing maps, de Blij focuses on the rough terrain of the world's human and environmental geography. The world's continuing partition into core and periphery, and apartheid-like obstructions to migration from the former to the latter, help explain why, in this age of globalisation, less than 3 percent of "mobals" live in countries other than where they were born. Maps of language distribution suggest why English, the Latin of the latter day, may become as hybridised as its forerunner. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aGlobalization 606 $aGlobalisering$2FBC 606 $aGeografi$2FBC 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aGlobalization. 615 7$aGlobalisering 615 7$aGeografi 676 $a304.2 686 $a355.46$2z 700 $aDe Blij$b Harm J.$035362 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823652103321 996 $aThe power of place$94066958 997 $aUNINA