Re: Central Asia maps, comment on previous post

At 04:28 PM 11/14/99 -0500, Georgi M. Derluguian wrote:
>The tech library at Binghamton (situated in Science II, I think, ner the
>greenhouse) has a special map collection, previously managed by a huge
>African-American US Marine Sgt. It contains very detailed aerial navigation
>maps of entire world. The details are primarily what a pilot would see from
>the skies -- roads, elevators, rivers. But not the imagined political
>borders.
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>Georgi M. Derluguian
>Assistant Professor
>Department of Sociology
>Northwestern University
>1812 Chicago Avenue
>Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
>(847) 491-2741 (rabota)
>
Hello,
        If you follow Harold Innis's work (Canadian econonmic historian),
then the political borders likely have something to do with very tangible
and physical geographic particularities of extraction economies or certain
economic formations--instead of being 'ideological' abstracts, as they are
typically discussed. ;-)


Regards,


Mark Whitaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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