{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-world-in-47-borders-9781472298515","title":"A History of the World in 47 Borders","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Fascinating' \u003cb\u003eTOM HOLLAND  \u003c\/b\u003e 'A delight from start to finish' \u003cb\u003eMIRANDA SAWYER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history'\u003cb\u003e BILL BRYSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' \u003cb\u003eGIDEON DEFOE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about the scale of human folly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a f\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867208331607,"sku":"9781472298515","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-world-in-47-borders-9781472298515","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}