What is included with this book?
List of Maps | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
The Effects of Geographic Ignorance on the Modern World | p. 1 |
We Think Big, Sometimes Too Big | p. 6 |
Maps Are Flat, the World Isn't | p. 11 |
Africa Bashing? What's That? | p. 14 |
Places Aren't Always Where You Think They Should Be | p. 17 |
State Capitals and American Politics | p. 22 |
The Exception to Everything | p. 26 |
Married to a Stranger | p. 30 |
Why Old Maps Look Funny | p. 34 |
Military Uses of Geography | p. 39 |
Really Big Cities | p. 44 |
Agriculture and Tourism | p. 48 |
Geography and Religion | p. 52 |
Geographic Pockets of Isolation: Preserving Old Ways | p. 56 |
Geographic Incoherence | p. 60 |
Countries Breaking Apart | p. 65 |
Unity in Disunity | p. 69 |
Maps Fool Us Again! | p. 73 |
Culture Hearths: Ancient and Modern | p. 76 |
Population Decline: Change on the Horizon | p. 81 |
Geographic Differences and Civil War | p. 86 |
New Agricultural Crops | p. 90 |
Domestications | p. 93 |
Continental Tidbits | p. 101 |
Islands Divided | p. 114 |
Oceans and Seas | p. 124 |
Bridges | p. 130 |
Rivers | p. 134 |
Medical Geography | p. 142 |
Border Issues | p. 149 |
Geography of Sports | p. 157 |
Geography and Religion Revisited | p. 162 |
The North | p. 167 |
Prison Islands | p. 173 |
Canals | p. 184 |
Land and Sea Battles | p. 193 |
Buildings | p. 204 |
Mountain Peaks | p. 210 |
Lakes | p. 217 |
Outliers | p. 224 |
Cities: Planned and Fiat | p. 231 |
Whatever Happened to …? | p. 236 |
The Wild West | p. 241 |
Spatial Diffusion | p. 246 |
Parks | p. 252 |
Climate and Weather | p. 258 |
Index | p. 264 |
About the Author | p. 270 |
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