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100 1 $aMcDonell, Nick,$d1984-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe civilization of perpetual movement :$bnomads in the modern world /$cNick McDonell.
264 1 $aLondon :$bHurst & Company ;$aNew York, NY :$bDistributed in the United States, Canada and Latin America by Oxford University Press,$c2016.
300 $aix, 172 pages ;$c23 cm.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.
520 $aFrom the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of "civilized", sedentary, peoples have again and again misunderstood nomads, and nomadism. Caricatured as backward herders, thieving pastoralists, or members of some vast and undifferentiated horde of humanity forever wandering the planet, nomads are usually perceived as anything but modern and almost always as on the verge of obsolescence. The Civilization of Perpetual Movement is the first examination of nomadism as a vital global political practice. Nick McDonell - bestselling novelist and war correspondent - draws upon his years spent with and research into nomads around the world to illuminate what is, and has always been, a most modern practice. In the lucid, evocative prose which earnt him comparisons with Graham Greene and John Le Carre in the New York Times, McDonell uncovers the ways nomads and states influence each other, historically and today - with surprising consequences, from the plains and mountains of Central Asia to the grasslands of the Great Rift Valley. Part literary meditation, part reflection on international relations, part original history, The Civilization of Perpetual Movement is firmly in the tradition of iconoclastic thinkers from Bruce Chatwin to James Scott to T. E. Lawrence.
650 0 $aNomads.
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