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The age of walls : how barriers between nations are changing our world / Tim Marshall.

Marshall, Tim, 1959- (author.).

Summary:

Walls are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more. Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected in the past ten years, and they are redefining our political landscape. ; There are many reasons why we erect walls, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, politics. In Europe the ruptures of the past decade threaten not only European unity, but in some countries liberal democracy itself. In China, the Party's need to contain the divisions wrought by capitalism will define the nation's future. In the USA the rationale for the Mexican border wall taps into the fear that the USA will no longer be a white majority country in the course of this century.; Understanding what has divided us, past and present, is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today. Covering China; the USA; Israel and Palestine; the Middle East; the Indian Subcontinent; Africa; Europe and the UK, bestselling author Tim Marshall presents a gripping and unflinching analysis of the fault lines that will shape our world for years to come.

Record details

ISBN: 9781501183904
ISBN: 1501183907
Physical Description: ix, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Shuster, Inc., 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published in Great Britain in 2018. "Book three of the Politics of Place Series"--Dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.