GEOG 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vosges, Suzerainty, Ecumene
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Objectives: understanding states spatially, historical geography of state formation. Geography of states: world political map, how we see the world. Normal" to see world as constituted of territorial areas called states": nothing inevitable or natural about states, products of social and political processes, very recent creation, 150,000 years of humanity". Definition of states: supreme civil power and government vested in a country or nation oed, body of people occupying a defined territory and organized under sovereign government. Governable space" and territorialization of rule: the state governs people in part through the territory and associated rules(citizenship, land use planning) Consolidation: waging wars and making states: charles tilly"s argument, preparation for, and waging of wars were crucial to the development of modern. Territorial integration: centripetal forces: pulls populations together, shared language/religions/ethnicities, check slides. Alsace: centrifrugal forces, vosges mountains (physically separates alsace from the rest of france, germanic dialect (linguistically distinguishes alsace from the official language of.
