Research Catalog

Title

Carving up the globe : an atlas of diplomacy / introduction & contributing editor, Malise Ruthven ; contributors, Andrew Avenell, Henry Bewicke, Caroline Chapman, Elizabeth Wyse.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ruthven, Malise
• Belknap Press, publisher.

Description

1 atlas (256 pages) : color maps; 29 cm

Summary

"Where do you draw the line? In the context of geopolitics, much hinges on the answer to that question. For thousands of years, it has been the work of diplomats to draw the lines in ways that were most advantageous to their leaders, fellow citizens, and sometimes themselves. Carving Up the Globe offers vivid documentation of their handiwork. With hundreds of full-color maps and other images, this atlas illustrates treaties that have determined the political fates of millions. In rich detail, it chronicles everything from ancient Egyptian and Hittite accords to the first Sino-Tibetan peace in 783 CE, the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, and the 2014 Minsk Protocol looming over the war in Ukraine. But there is more here than shifting territorial frontiers. Throughout history, diplomats have also drawn boundaries around valuable resources and used treaties to empower, liberate, and constrain. Carving Up the Globe encompasses these agreements, too, across land, sea, and air. Missile and nuclear pacts, environmental treaties, chemical weapons conventions, and economic deals are all carefully rendered. Led by Malise Ruthven, a team of experts provides lively historical commentary, which--together with finely crafted visuals--conjures the ceaseless ambition of princes and politicians. Whether they sought the glory and riches of empire or pursued hegemony, security, stability, and GDP within the modern international system, their efforts culminated in lines on a map--and the enormous real-life consequences those lines represent and enforce"--Dust jacket.

Alternative Title

Atlas of diplomacy

Subject

• Political geography > Maps
• Treaties > History > Maps
• World politics > Maps
• Diplomacy > Maps
• Diplomacy
• Political geography
• Treaties
• World politics

Genre/Form

• Atlases.
• History.
• Maps.

Note

• Relief shown by contours and shading.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The world in 1 CE -- The world in 1000 CE -- The world in 1400 -- The world in 1800 -- The world in 1900 -- The world in 2000.

Call Number

G1046.F1

ISBN

• 9780674976245
• 067497624X

LCCN

2017045515

OCLC

1038277437

Title

Carving up the globe : an atlas of diplomacy / introduction & contributing editor, Malise Ruthven ; contributors, Andrew Avenell, Henry Bewicke, Caroline Chapman, Elizabeth Wyse.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Cartographic Data

Scales differ.

Type of Content

cartographic image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Ruthven, Malise, editor, contributor, writer of introduction.

Belknap Press, publisher.

Research Call Number

G1046.F1 C3 2018