The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World
Written by Tim Marshall
Narrated by Nigel Patterson
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About this audiobook
In fact, at least sixty-five countries, more than a third of the world's nation-states, have barriers along their borders. There are many reasons why walls go up, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, and politics, to name a few. Understanding what is behind these divisions is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today.
The Age of Walls examines how walls (which Marshall calls "monuments to the failure of politics"), borders, and barriers have been shaping our political landscape for hundreds of years, and especially since 2001, and how they figure in the diplomatic relations and geo-political events of today.
Tim Marshall
Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than thirty years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News and before that worked for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from forty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. He is the author of Prisoners of Geography, The Age of Walls, A Flag Worth Dying For, The Power of Geography, and The Future of Geography.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book paints a bigger picture of smaller issue and paint it in global scale by mentioning it bigger consequences.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5He writes so good and helps understand so much! Thanks Tim!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An absolutely phenomenal book not just on current politics of borders around the world, but even history, and other politics, culture identities, and other current event matters that are involving so many areas around the world - not just Trump and his wall.
Unbiased as well, which is a rarity for something of this breadth and scope. Not pro-immigration or anti-immigration, not pro-conservative or pro-progressive or liberal or this or that or this or that or this or that or this or that, the book does a good job of showing WHY there are border walls and WHY they will probably always be there. Why Americans had walls along Mexico before Trump, why Trump wants the wall, why wanting a wall doesn't make you racist, why not wanting a wall is also a good idea, etc.
And not just America. The book covers South America, UK, Europe, Middle East, Israel, etc. The scope of this book showcases all the diverse settings of the world and all of the various walls and all of the topics and issues and politics surrounding why the walls are there is fantastic and done so well. For anyone who wants to get more familiar with the global climate insofar as politics, history, immigration, migrations, etc, this is definitely a wonderful book to pick up to read.
This is "book 3" of a series by Tim Marshall. I'm hoping when I return this tomorrow to the library that they'll have the first two books of the series, because this was fantastic.