The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate pdfdrive com

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Copyright © 2012 by Robert D. Kaplan
Maps copyright © 2012 by David Lindroth, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a
division of Random House, Inc., New York.
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The preface contains material from four earlier titles by Robert D. Kaplan:
Soldiers of God
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1990), 
An Empire Wilderness
(New York: Random House, Inc., 1998),
Eastward to Tartary
(New York: Random House, Inc., 2000), and
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts
(New York: Random House, Inc., 2007).
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The revenge of geography : what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate / by
Robert D. Kaplan.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-679-60483-9
1. Political geography. I. Title.
JC319.K335 2012
320.1′2—dc23 2012000655
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Title-spread image: © iStockphoto
Jacket design: Greg Mollica
Front-jacket illustrations (top to bottom): Gerardus Mercator, double hemisphere world map, 1587
(Bridgeman Art Library); Joan Blaeu, view of antique Thessaly, from the Atlas Maior, 1662 (Bridgeman
Art Library); Robert Wilkinson, “A New and Correct Map
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But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man’s periods of
felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and to continue, all
seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous
mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will
come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.
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