TY  - BOOK
AU  - Defoe,Gideon
TI  - An atlas of extinct countries: the remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map 
SN  - 9780008393854 (hbk.) :
AV  - JC131 
U1  - 320.1209 23
KW  - Political geography
KW  - State succession
KW  - Failed states
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either 'got too greedy' or 'Napoleon turned up'. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This is an atlas of nations that fell off the map
ER  -