An atlas of extinct countries - Rilegato

Defoe, Gideon

 
9781609456801: An atlas of extinct countries
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ISBN 10: 1609456807 ISBN 13: 9781609456801
Casa editrice: Europa Editions, 2021

Sinossi

Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either 'got too greedy' or 'Napoleon turned up'. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so, because these dead nations are so full of schemers, racists, and con men that it's impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. Because of this – and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything – these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world, however nice some of the flags might be.

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Editore
Europa Editions
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1609456807
ISBN 13 
9781609456801
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
304
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780008393854: An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0008393850 ISBN 13:  9780008393854
Casa editrice: Fourth Estate, 2020
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