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Geohistoria: Otra historia de la humanidad
¿Y si la mejor manera de contar la historia del mundo fuera su geografía?
Un ensayo apasionante para lectores de Jared Diamon y Robert D. Kaplan.
«La historia de la humanidad es una respuesta a desafíos geográficos y climáticos formidables. El ensayo de Christian Grataloup ordena con acierto la aventura de nuestra especie». LE FIGARO
«En este libro la geografía arroja luz sobre la historia. ¡Brillante y necesario!». ERIK ORSENNA
No hay historia sin geografía ni geografía sin historia.
La geohistoria cuenta la historia de la humanidad a medida que esta se expandió por la Tierra, dividiéndose en distintas sociedades para crear el mundo tal como lo conocemos hoy.
El mayor especialista en esta discilplina, Christian Grataloup, nos descubre en este ensayo documentado y accesible las fascinantes relaciones que han establecido nuestras sociedades con su entorno y cómo se han influenciado mutuamente. Para hacerlo, se apoya en un mini atlas y diversos bocetos que nos ayudan en todo momentos a ubicarnos en el planeta.
Desde la llegada del sapiens a Australia o América hace varias decenas de miles de años hasta la caída de la URSS, este ambicioso libro describe los contornos del mundo y su papel fundamental en la definición de quiénes somos.
La geohistoria es una historia incomparable del mundo.
Un ensayo apasionante para lectores de Jared Diamon y Robert D. Kaplan.
«La historia de la humanidad es una respuesta a desafíos geográficos y climáticos formidables. El ensayo de Christian Grataloup ordena con acierto la aventura de nuestra especie». LE FIGARO
«En este libro la geografía arroja luz sobre la historia. ¡Brillante y necesario!». ERIK ORSENNA
No hay historia sin geografía ni geografía sin historia.
La geohistoria cuenta la historia de la humanidad a medida que esta se expandió por la Tierra, dividiéndose en distintas sociedades para crear el mundo tal como lo conocemos hoy.
El mayor especialista en esta discilplina, Christian Grataloup, nos descubre en este ensayo documentado y accesible las fascinantes relaciones que han establecido nuestras sociedades con su entorno y cómo se han influenciado mutuamente. Para hacerlo, se apoya en un mini atlas y diversos bocetos que nos ayudan en todo momentos a ubicarnos en el planeta.
Desde la llegada del sapiens a Australia o América hace varias decenas de miles de años hasta la caída de la URSS, este ambicioso libro describe los contornos del mundo y su papel fundamental en la definición de quiénes somos.
La geohistoria es una historia incomparable del mundo.
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Published February 12, 2025
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September 9, 2024
een van de beste samenvattingen van de geschiedenis van de mens die ik ooit ben tegengekomen. geen eurocentrisme, geen bias naar het huidige tijdperk, wel veel nieuwe inzichten en coole gedachte-experimenten.
September 1, 2025
Excellent book that review the whole history of Homo Sapiens through the eye of various other sciences (geography, biology, geology…). However, i felt it was sometimes a little bit difficult to digest all the information but definitely super interesting.
February 14, 2024
"The history of the World has a geography. And this geography has a history. The diversity of the historical trajectories of human societies is understood in great part by their position: both in regards to all other societies, and in a particular point of the surface of the Earth."
A geographer-turned-historian, Christian Grataloup brilliantly tells a very accessible story of humankind considering long-term trends and evolutions, in the manner of Braudel, instead of focusing on more trendy and attractive "turning points" and "great figures".
Taking into account the influence of geography, and making a key element of the East-West Eurasian "Axis" of the world, without being deterministic like Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" (but still mentioning it in part), we can see Humanity take shape, spread around the world, and evolve into the first societies, which then begin to coalesce into a kind of "greater exchange" between cultures.
These exchanges prompt progress, which leads to more cultures getting in touch with the central "Axis", generating more progress, but also destruction, as with the plague epidemics or the diseases that ravaged the Americas during the XVIth century, or the effects of colonisation and the intensive European-led slave trade (Grataloup incidentally mentions that the division of labour that was one of the prompts of the "Industrial Revolution" is more likely coming from the European plantations in the colonies than from the genius of some left-at-home European inventors).
The technological and societal progress bring about more than anything an acceleration in the rate of exchanges, until we reach the super-connected, super fast world of today. And an end to this magnificent read, which I would absolutely recommend every time over Harari's Sapiens, which is also mentioned early in the book for its false premises ;-)
A geographer-turned-historian, Christian Grataloup brilliantly tells a very accessible story of humankind considering long-term trends and evolutions, in the manner of Braudel, instead of focusing on more trendy and attractive "turning points" and "great figures".
Taking into account the influence of geography, and making a key element of the East-West Eurasian "Axis" of the world, without being deterministic like Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" (but still mentioning it in part), we can see Humanity take shape, spread around the world, and evolve into the first societies, which then begin to coalesce into a kind of "greater exchange" between cultures.
These exchanges prompt progress, which leads to more cultures getting in touch with the central "Axis", generating more progress, but also destruction, as with the plague epidemics or the diseases that ravaged the Americas during the XVIth century, or the effects of colonisation and the intensive European-led slave trade (Grataloup incidentally mentions that the division of labour that was one of the prompts of the "Industrial Revolution" is more likely coming from the European plantations in the colonies than from the genius of some left-at-home European inventors).
The technological and societal progress bring about more than anything an acceleration in the rate of exchanges, until we reach the super-connected, super fast world of today. And an end to this magnificent read, which I would absolutely recommend every time over Harari's Sapiens, which is also mentioned early in the book for its false premises ;-)
January 11, 2025
Très bon, en particulier sur l’analyse de la période des grandes découvertes : on découvre à quel point le monde a bifurqué grâce à l’action de quelques pays et personnes très déterminées, et tout aurait pu être différent.
February 6, 2025
Complet, ultra-intéressant. Plongée vertigineuse dans ce qu'a été et est la Terre et l'humanité (que nous croyons, à tort, connaître)
March 16, 2025
Très bon
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