Geography Is Destiny Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
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Ian Morris teaches at Stanford University and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the bestselling author of Why the West Rules - For Now and War: What is it Good For? He has won awards for teaching and writing and has directed archaeological digs in Greece and Italy.A 'big ideas' gallop ... Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming 10,000 years of history into a single book
- Robert Colvile, Times
Morris is a jaunty, accessible writer, especially strong on his home field of archaeology, and this is a book brimming with neat slogans and ideas
- Dan Jones, Sunday Times
Morris writes with great knowledge and wisdom and a certain panache ... I can't think of a better, more thought-provoking and generally wise introduction to the 'long' history of Britain's changing relations with continental Europe and the wider world than Geography is Destiny, or one that is such a terrific read
- Bernard Porter, Literary Review
Praise for Ian Morris: 'A great work of synthesis and argument, drawing together an awesome range of materials and authorities
- Andrew Marr,
A fresh perspective ... Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable
- Jared Diamond, author, Guns, Germs, and Steel
Clever, acute and counterintuitive ... a pleasure to read
- Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Brilliantly argued across a huge sweep, combining history with human geography, human and natural sciences. It is a magnificent and stimulating read, and should be given to anyone involved in the business of war and peace, or the human fate in any respect - and already a book of the year
- Robert Fox, Evening Standard
A provocative and extraordinary contribution to wide-screen comparative history ... a true banquet of ideas
- Boyd Tonkin, Independent
This is an astonishing book, full of controversy, brilliantly researched and thoughtfully argued ... one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking histories I've read in years
Daily Telegraph
One doffs one's hat to Morris's breadth, ambition and erudition
Sunday Times
An astonishing work
- David S. Landes, author, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
An exuberant and wonderfully entertaining tour de force of history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, evolutionary biology and technological and military speculation... a terrific book
- David Crane, The Spectator
It is the book's elegantly succinct prose that will most captivate readers ... filled with lucid explanations of the most recondite questions, with many revealing quotations and witty asides
- Edward Luttwak, Prospect
Remarkable ... historian Morris argues not only that war is a source of technological advance but that it brings peace ... the thesis is disturbingly persuasive
- Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Gleefully provocative yet alarmingly persuasive... one of the most original history books in years
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