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Marshall, Tim,
1959-
Prisoners of Geography :
Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World /
Tim Marshall.
1st Scribner pbk. ed. October 2016.
New York :
Scribner,
2016.
305 p. :
maps ;
23 cm.
Politics of Place ;
1
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-286) and index.
New York Times, December 2015.
Uses maps of ten world regions to explain the geopolitical strategies and histories of each region, showing how the physical characteristics of these regions affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders.
20210119.
Obama, Barack.
World War II.
United Nations.
Geopolitics.
World politics.
Albania.
al-Qaeda.
Angola.
Arctic/Arctic Circle.
Armenia.
Atlantic Ocean.
Azerbaijan.
Baltic Sea.
Baluchistan.
Bay of Bengal.
Bering Strait.
Black Sea.
Bulgaria.
Caribbean Sea.
Carpathian Mountains.
Chile. .
Christians and Christianity.
Cold war.
Communism.
Crimea.
Danube River.
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
East China Sea.
Economic crisis of 2008.
Energy Resources.
Estonia.
European Union.
First World War.
Gulf of Mexico.
Himalayas.
Hong Kong.
Human rights.
Iceland.
Indian Ocean.
Indochina.
Indus River.
Islam.
Islamists.
Karakoram River.
Kashmir.
Kazakhstan.
Kurds/Kurdistan.
Kuril Islands.
Kuwait.
Kygyzstan.
Latvia.
Lebanon.
Libya.
Lithuania.
Manchuria.
Mediterranean Sea.
Moldova.
Mongols.
Muslim Brotherhood.
Muslims.
Nepal.
New Orleans.
Niger.
Nile River.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
North European Plain.
North Korea.
North-West Frontier.
Nuclear energy.
Nuclear weapons.
Okinawa.
Ottoman Empire.
Panama Canal.
Pashtuns.
Punjab.
Putin, Vladimir.
Pyongyang.
Railways.
Rainforests.
Ramadi.
Rhine River.
Rhone River.
Rio Grande River.
Romania.
Ryukyu Islands.
Sahara Desert.
Sahel.
Salafi Islam.
Sea of Japan.
Second World War.
Seine River.
Shia Islam.
Siberia.
Slovakia.
Slovenia.
Somalia.
South China Sea.
South Korea.
Sri Lanka.
Strait of Malacca.
Suez Canal.
Sunni Islam.
Syria.
Tajikistan.
Terrorism.
Tibet.
Tikrit.
Turkey.
Ukraine.
United Kingdom.
Ural Mountains.
Uruguay.
USSR.
Venezuela.
Vladivostok.
Water supplies.
Western Europe.
Yalu River.
Yangtze River.
Yellow River.
Yellow Sea.
Yemen.
Zambezi River.
Zambia.
Geography.
Afghanistan.
Africa.
Alaska.
Argentina.
Bangladesh.
Brazil.
Burma.
Canada.
China.
Colombia.
Cuba.
Egypt.
Ethiopia.
Finland.
Florida.
France.
Georgia.
Germany.
Greece.
Greenland.
India.
Indonesia.
Iran.
Iraq.
Israel.
Italy.
Japan.
Jordan.
Kenya.
Korea.
Latin America.
Mexico.
Middle East.
Mississippi River.
Mongolia.
Northwest Passage.
Norway.
Pacific Ocean.
Pakistan.
Palestine.
Peru.
Philippines.
Poland.
Portugal.
Russia.
Saudi Arabia.
Serbia.
South Africa.
Spain.
Sudan.
Sweden.
Taiwan.
Tanzania.
Texas.
Thailand.
Uganda.
United States.
Vietnam.
World War I.
Politics of Place ;
1.