All About the Wall
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Book Introduction
The eighth story in the Illustoria series
All About the Wall
We've unraveled the essential stories we need to know as we navigate the present and future, through illustrations! "Illustoria" (a series name created by combining "illustration" with the Italian word for history, "storia").
To make it easy to read, each page is written in short bursts, while the story is enriched with lively and sophisticated illustrations to enhance the immersion.
This is how the Illustratoria series was born! Following the previously published "The Selma March," "Fast Fashion," "The Scramble for Africa," "All About Nuclear Weapons," "All About Advertising," "All About Geopolitics," and "The Silk Road," the eighth book is "All About Walls," a collection of stories about all the "barriers" humanity has erected from past to present.
There was a time when separation, blocking, and lockdown were the norm.
The barriers erected between nations and individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic may have had the effect of mitigating risk in a moment of crisis, but they remain a memory we never want to experience again.
Walls were originally used as structures to keep out invaders, such as castles and fortresses.
But as a means of separation, exclusion, and blocking, it emerged and was established even in situations of crisis, dispute, and conflict.
"All About Walls" contains all the barriers in the world that humanity has built, has built, and is building.
From visible barriers like the Great Wall of China, the Palestinian-Israeli separation barrier, the US-Mexico border wall, and the Western Sahara Wall, born of territorial disputes, to invisible barriers caused by ideology, poverty, and religion, this book carefully examines the historical background and circumstances that led to their creation.
The ever-growing walls, and the pain and history embedded within them, will make us ponder their utility and meaning in this so-called era of globalization.
All About the Wall
We've unraveled the essential stories we need to know as we navigate the present and future, through illustrations! "Illustoria" (a series name created by combining "illustration" with the Italian word for history, "storia").
To make it easy to read, each page is written in short bursts, while the story is enriched with lively and sophisticated illustrations to enhance the immersion.
This is how the Illustratoria series was born! Following the previously published "The Selma March," "Fast Fashion," "The Scramble for Africa," "All About Nuclear Weapons," "All About Advertising," "All About Geopolitics," and "The Silk Road," the eighth book is "All About Walls," a collection of stories about all the "barriers" humanity has erected from past to present.
There was a time when separation, blocking, and lockdown were the norm.
The barriers erected between nations and individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic may have had the effect of mitigating risk in a moment of crisis, but they remain a memory we never want to experience again.
Walls were originally used as structures to keep out invaders, such as castles and fortresses.
But as a means of separation, exclusion, and blocking, it emerged and was established even in situations of crisis, dispute, and conflict.
"All About Walls" contains all the barriers in the world that humanity has built, has built, and is building.
From visible barriers like the Great Wall of China, the Palestinian-Israeli separation barrier, the US-Mexico border wall, and the Western Sahara Wall, born of territorial disputes, to invisible barriers caused by ideology, poverty, and religion, this book carefully examines the historical background and circumstances that led to their creation.
The ever-growing walls, and the pain and history embedded within them, will make us ponder their utility and meaning in this so-called era of globalization.
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index
Part 1: Obstacles to stop the enemy
build a castle
Overcome the wall!
Build a wall instead of a castle
Part 2: Blocking and Occupying the Border
borders and barriers
Is it Africa? Is it Europe?
Protect Our Borders! America's Border Wall
Can a Wall Become a Border? The Western Sahara Wall
US military bases in Cuba that can be dismantled but are not
Part 3: Monitor, Divide, and Block
Watch the salt, plant barrier
The Peruvian Wall of Shame, a source of shame
Splitting a City in Two: The Berlin Wall
Roofless Prison, Palestine Separation Barrier (Security Wall)
Resolving Conflict with a Wall? The Wall of Peace
Part 4: An Invisible Barrier That's Even More Powerful
Iron Curtain, Bamboo Curtain
The emergence of a unprecedented barrier: the pandemic.
Between apartments
neglect and discrimination
Part 5: The Day All Barriers Disappear
Imagine, the day when all barriers disappear
References
build a castle
Overcome the wall!
Build a wall instead of a castle
Part 2: Blocking and Occupying the Border
borders and barriers
Is it Africa? Is it Europe?
Protect Our Borders! America's Border Wall
Can a Wall Become a Border? The Western Sahara Wall
US military bases in Cuba that can be dismantled but are not
Part 3: Monitor, Divide, and Block
Watch the salt, plant barrier
The Peruvian Wall of Shame, a source of shame
Splitting a City in Two: The Berlin Wall
Roofless Prison, Palestine Separation Barrier (Security Wall)
Resolving Conflict with a Wall? The Wall of Peace
Part 4: An Invisible Barrier That's Even More Powerful
Iron Curtain, Bamboo Curtain
The emergence of a unprecedented barrier: the pandemic.
Between apartments
neglect and discrimination
Part 5: The Day All Barriers Disappear
Imagine, the day when all barriers disappear
References
Detailed image
Into the book
As a means of preventing people from moving freely,
As a means of separating rich and poor neighbors,
As a means of confining people of different religions,
As a means to block freedom and belief.
Above all, a barrier is something that the strong can use to confine the weak.
It served as a prison.
--- p.27
Surprisingly, there are places where barriers have been erected between neighbors.
In the middle of an apartment complex in South Korea.
--- p.103
Whether it is a visible or invisible barrier, it blocks the opponent.
The method will never achieve any goal.
For a while, you can block the opponent's attacks and defend against penetration,
As time passes, conflict and confrontation soon reveal their limits.
Because people who are blocked by barriers dream of escaping in other ways.
The higher and stronger the barrier, the more violent those blocked will resort to.
So, a vicious cycle occurs where violence leads to more violence.
This can be easily confirmed by looking at history.
All barriers will eventually fall.
As a means of separating rich and poor neighbors,
As a means of confining people of different religions,
As a means to block freedom and belief.
Above all, a barrier is something that the strong can use to confine the weak.
It served as a prison.
--- p.27
Surprisingly, there are places where barriers have been erected between neighbors.
In the middle of an apartment complex in South Korea.
--- p.103
Whether it is a visible or invisible barrier, it blocks the opponent.
The method will never achieve any goal.
For a while, you can block the opponent's attacks and defend against penetration,
As time passes, conflict and confrontation soon reveal their limits.
Because people who are blocked by barriers dream of escaping in other ways.
The higher and stronger the barrier, the more violent those blocked will resort to.
So, a vicious cycle occurs where violence leads to more violence.
This can be easily confirmed by looking at history.
All barriers will eventually fall.
--- p.107
Publisher's Review
From barriers to block intrusions to barriers to separation.
The message that 'the barrier' conveys to us
Since ancient times, mankind has erected barriers according to its own needs.
As a means of blocking enemies, castles such as the Great Wall and Hadrian's Wall were built.
However, due to the development of weapons, these castles were easily penetrated, and as they lost their function as barriers, they were no longer built.
But in its place, another barrier began to appear, its presence growing larger and its meaning becoming more complex.
The new barriers that were erected in this way shook the history of the world and became the center of chaos.
Even after 100 years, Israel and Palestine are still at the center of the conflict, and the 'Gaza Strip Separation Wall' there is called a 'roofless prison'.
In some places, the result of conflict is a barrier.
The 'peace wall' between Ireland and Northern Ireland was built by Catholics and Anglicans to prevent further conflict.
The United States, known as the land of the free, built a massive 'Mexico-US border wall' that is called the second Great Wall of China to block immigrants, and the 'Western Sahara Sand Wall' that Morocco built, claiming it as their territory, was not enough of a wall; it also created the world's longest minefield around it.
And there is the 'Armistice Line', a barrier that we who live on the Korean Peninsula are looking forward to collapsing more than anyone else.
Whether they are barriers to prevent invasion, barriers to separate, or barriers to avoid conflict, there are countless barriers of various forms all over the world.
What message do these barriers send us? Are they acceptable for their continued existence?
A stronger, invisible barrier
Can barriers really disappear?
Just like the 'apartment discrimination' that blocked or separated the entrances of rental apartments and regular apartment residents to prevent them from mixing, 'invisible barriers' erected due to the gap between the rich and the poor, or differences in thoughts, religion, or race can be easily found in our daily lives.
This means that none of us are free from barriers.
So, is this world unchangeable? Can the barriers that surround us truly disappear?
Breaking down barriers, whether visible or invisible, is not easy.
But by becoming aware of and understanding the countless barriers that exist throughout the world, can't we find ways to gradually overcome them? Because understanding leads to compromise, the path to coexistence.
Isaac Newton's words, "People build too many walls and not enough bridges," are still valid 300 years later.
This is also the reason why you should open this book.
The message that 'the barrier' conveys to us
Since ancient times, mankind has erected barriers according to its own needs.
As a means of blocking enemies, castles such as the Great Wall and Hadrian's Wall were built.
However, due to the development of weapons, these castles were easily penetrated, and as they lost their function as barriers, they were no longer built.
But in its place, another barrier began to appear, its presence growing larger and its meaning becoming more complex.
The new barriers that were erected in this way shook the history of the world and became the center of chaos.
Even after 100 years, Israel and Palestine are still at the center of the conflict, and the 'Gaza Strip Separation Wall' there is called a 'roofless prison'.
In some places, the result of conflict is a barrier.
The 'peace wall' between Ireland and Northern Ireland was built by Catholics and Anglicans to prevent further conflict.
The United States, known as the land of the free, built a massive 'Mexico-US border wall' that is called the second Great Wall of China to block immigrants, and the 'Western Sahara Sand Wall' that Morocco built, claiming it as their territory, was not enough of a wall; it also created the world's longest minefield around it.
And there is the 'Armistice Line', a barrier that we who live on the Korean Peninsula are looking forward to collapsing more than anyone else.
Whether they are barriers to prevent invasion, barriers to separate, or barriers to avoid conflict, there are countless barriers of various forms all over the world.
What message do these barriers send us? Are they acceptable for their continued existence?
A stronger, invisible barrier
Can barriers really disappear?
Just like the 'apartment discrimination' that blocked or separated the entrances of rental apartments and regular apartment residents to prevent them from mixing, 'invisible barriers' erected due to the gap between the rich and the poor, or differences in thoughts, religion, or race can be easily found in our daily lives.
This means that none of us are free from barriers.
So, is this world unchangeable? Can the barriers that surround us truly disappear?
Breaking down barriers, whether visible or invisible, is not easy.
But by becoming aware of and understanding the countless barriers that exist throughout the world, can't we find ways to gradually overcome them? Because understanding leads to compromise, the path to coexistence.
Isaac Newton's words, "People build too many walls and not enough bridges," are still valid 300 years later.
This is also the reason why you should open this book.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: July 20, 2024
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 120 pages | 298g | 161*198*12mm
- ISBN13: 9791189231576
- ISBN10: 1189231573
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