Brief World History

The "geography is dead" concept has been presented convincingly by Thomas Friedman in his bestseller, the World is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first Century 1.

Thomas Friedman在他的畅销作品世界是平面的：21世纪简史1中有说服力地提出“地理界限消失了”的概念。

We're in a post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era, in that brief period in American history where we felt confident and almost complacent in our place in the world.

我们身处后‘水门事件’时代和后越战时代，在美国历史上这短短一页里，我们感到自信，为我们国家的世界地位而沾沾自喜。

If you don't know what "flat" refers to here, then you haven't read Tom Friedman's book, the World is flat: a Brief History Of the 21st Century.

如果你不知道这里提到的“扁平的”是什么意思，那你一定没有读过Friedman的书，The World is Flat： a Brief History Of The 21st Century(《扁平的世界：二十一世纪简史》)。