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279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History

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The Geography Is Destiny Book by Alex Hayley

After this book, i got into writing this geography is destiny book because i wanted to see how well the grand global theories could be scaled down to tvery particular and particular of the world. And as you say, o alexalian roots, i had not really thought all that, uh, the geography of where i specifically came from. The town i come from, on stokan trent, is just on the north and western side of the line dividing the two regions in british history. Its can this mix of the soft southeast and e more rugged north and west. For me, that was just very, very revealing, thinking about the forces that had made me into the

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