Ľudia majú kreslenie línií na mape pre dlhé a budú mať mapy na kreslenie na. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes enterely arbitrary, tieto línie might often halo looked veľmi different if war alebo treaty alebo decision handful of tired European had gone a different way. By telling stories of the borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and o human folly.From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British- Francúzske zhromaždenie sa zastaví na Ottoman Empire počas prvej svetovej vojny, na reason why landlocked Bolívia stále maintains a navy, to je fascinating, witty a prekvapujúce vyzerať na histórii sveta told through jeho border.