The Hidden Globe by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/167064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Globe Author: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Narrator: Patrick Harrison Format: mp3 Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins Release date: 02-25-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Human Geography Publisher's Summary: The map of the globe shows the world we think we know: sovereign nations that grant and restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside its neatly delineated borders, however, a parallel universe has been engineered into existence, consisting of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, increasingly for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful. Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of the hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed the commodity they had—bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters.