The Geography Behind History

By W. Gordon East

Book Overview

Professor East's topics include the role of geography in international politics, the contribution of the geographer to the study of ancient civilizations, and the use of old maps as historical documents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393004198
• ISBN13: 9780393004199
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Hannibal had to take elephants over the Alps to meet Silvia.

Every discipline assumes history is created and moved by it. In their book, it is Geography. We see how natural barriers and different terrains separate people and cause wars. This is not a cut-and-dry book and includes factors such as vegetation and climate. Alice would like this book as she says, ''What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?” This book has 74 Sketch-Maps and Diagrams; most of them showing borders of towns and nations. This is from early times to the present (1965)