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Title: Ends of the Earth:, The : A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century by Robert D. Kaplan ISBN: 0-679-43148-9 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 27 February, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Mandatory reading!
Comment: Robert Kaplan writes in a style that drives the reader's eyes to rip the words from the page. This book was not only extremely relevant to current events(strange that it was written several years ago), it gives the reader a real view of life in a part of the world which almost any westerner would not survive two seconds in. Read this and open your frickin eyes to the shaky world we are living in.
Rating: 5
Summary: important book
Comment: Robert Kaplan writes about his experiences traveling abroad from africa to cambodia discussing things like the region's historys and economies. The book provides an interesting comparision among different improvished regions of the world. Reading this book provides a better understanding of the third world.
Rating: 2
Summary: Geat read, but misinformed and biased
Comment: Kaplan is a good writer and creates a strong sense of fear and concern for the reader. He is an intrepid travel who can weave a fantastic story and enthrall the reader. But his talent for writing can also distract the reader. Between the lines one can see that he is taking liberties with facts and inflating single incidents into general conclusions. For example, he will take comments from street vendors in Cairo and make a vast, general conclusion about the state of the country. He also has a terrible habit of generalizing societies and reverting to now much-maligned 'orientalist'writers to support his case. One of the more embarassing moments in this book is when he discusses 'oriental despotism' and uses texts to talk about the unique nature of 'oriental' totalitarianism and its particularly abusing ways of managing society and oppressing people. This from a man who comes from a culture that slaugheter over 22 million humans in world wars, and a country that dropped atomic bombs on civilian populations, murdered millions in Indochina and other unmentionable acts. Is oriental despotism really that unique? Have we forgotten the colonial empires in Latin America, Congo and the rest of Africa, the slave trade etc. etc.. Can anyone really sit and claim that oriental despotism was more/less despotic that what the Occident demonstrated? Amusing to hear him talk about the unique nature of oriental oppression and totalitarianism. These are old racist ideas in not even new guises. A sensitive read will quickly find these tendencies annoying, but I think that most general readers will actually think that they are benefiting from such writers and books. That is sad, because people like Kaplan, who continue to focus on the small differences rather than the larger commonalities between societies and peoples, will continue to create dialogues in their societies that mislead and scare rather than inform and explain
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Title: Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan ISBN: 0679749810 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 15 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus by Robert D. Kaplan ISBN: 0375705767 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Coming Anarchy : Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War by Robert D. Kaplan ISBN: 037570759X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos by Robert D. Kaplan ISBN: 0375505636 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: An Empire Wilderness : Travels into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan ISBN: 0679776877 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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