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In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain''s relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world.

When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to stay and the 52 percent who wanted to go each accused the other of stupidity, fraud, and treason. In reality, the Brexit debate merely reran a script written ten thousand years earlier, when the rising seas physically separated the British Isles from the European continent. Ever since, geography has been destinyyet it is humans who get to decide what that destiny means.

Ian Morris, the critically acclaimed author of Why the West Rulesfor Now, describes how technology and organization have steadily enlarged Britain's arena, and how its people have tried to turn this to their advantage. For the first seventy-five hundred years, the British were never more than bit players at the western edge of a European st

Geography Is Destiny

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 6 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250872197
      978-1250872197
      ISBN-10 1250872197
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      Historical geography International relations

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain''s relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world.

      When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to stay and the 52 percent who wanted to go each accused the other of stupidity, fraud, and treason. In reality, the Brexit debate merely reran a script written ten thousand years earlier, when the rising seas physically separated the British Isles from the European continent. Ever since, geography has been destinyyet it is humans who get to decide what that destiny means.

      Ian Morris, the critically acclaimed author of Why the West Rulesfor Now, describes how technology and organization have steadily enlarged Britain's arena, and how its people have tried to turn this to their advantage. For the first seventy-five hundred years, the British were never more than bit players at the western edge of a European st

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