Earth shapers : how we mapped and mastered the world, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way
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Earth shapers : how we mapped and mastered the world, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way
University of Chicago Press, 2025
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Summary: "Maxim Samson's Earth Shapers contends that over our relatively short time on this planet, humans have fundamentally reshaped and molded the earth to our purposes. Through our desire to make geographical connections, humans have broken through boundaries of all kinds, conquered treacherous terrain, and carved up landscapes. We crave linkages, and though we do not always pay attention to the in between, these pathways-these ways of "earth shaping," in Samson's words-are key to understanding how humans have etched themselves onto the planet. Samson has gathered fascinating stories of connectivity that range widely through time and place, from an Inca road system to the Great Green Wall in Africa, the Panama Canal to a Saudi Arabian smart city, and from Mozambique's railways to the streets of Chicago"--Provided by publisher
Includes index
