James Crawford is an acclaimed historian, publisher and broadcaster. His book Fallen Glory was selected as a Sunday Times Must Read, and a Book of the Year by the New Statesman and the Independent. His latest, The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World earned rave reviews in The New York Review of Books and The Washington Post, and was featured on CNN’s Amanpour. He lives in Edinburgh.
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A wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an exploration of their role in shaping our world today. Since the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next—a stone column inscribed with Sumer... SEE MORE