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Civilizations : culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature/
Civilizations is a radical cultural history of mankind's relationship with natue, which advances a new understanding of what it means to be civilised. Fernández-Armesto is the author of ten books, including Millennium, Truth and Columbus.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Macmillan,
2000.
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| 100 | 1 | |9 506502 |a Pardo, Felipe Fernández de, |d 1611-1689 | |
| 245 | |a Civilizations : |b culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature/ |c Felipe Fernández-Armesto. |h English | ||
| 260 | |a London : |b Macmillan, |c 2000. | ||
| 300 | |a xx, 636 p., |b 24 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (some color), 1 color map ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a A revolutionary new history from the bestselling author of Millennium | ||
| 505 | |a The itch to civilize : civilizations and civilization -- pt. 1. The waste land : desert, tundra, ice -- The helm of ice : ice worlds and tundra as human habitats -- The death of earth : adaptation and counteradaptation in deserts of sand -- pt. 2. Leaves of grass : uncultivable grasslands -- The sweepings of the wind : prairie and grassy savanna -- The highway of civilizations : the Eurasian steppe -- pt. 3. Under the rain : civilization in tropical lowlands and postglacial forests -- The wild woods : postglacial and temperate woodland -- Hearts of darkness : tropical lowlands -- pt. 4. The shining fields of mud : alluvial soils in drying climates -- The lone and level sands : misleading cases in the Near East -- Of shoes and rice : transcending environments of origin in China and India -- pt. 5. The mirrors of sky : civilizing highlands -- The gardens of the clouds : highland civilizations of the new world -- The climb to paradise : highland civilizations of the old world -- pt. 6. The water margins : civilizations shaped by the sea -- The allotments of the gods : small-island civilizations -- The view from the shore : the nature of seaboard civilizations -- Chasing the monsoon : seaboard civilizations of maritime Asia -- The tradition of Ulysses : the Greek and Roman seaboards -- pt. 7. Breaking the waves : the domestication of the oceans -- Almost the last environment : the rise of oceanic civilizations -- Refloating Atlantis : the making of Atlantic civilization -- The Atlantic and after : Atlantic supremacy and the global outlook. | ||
| 520 | |a Civilizations is a radical cultural history of mankind's relationship with natue, which advances a new understanding of what it means to be civilised. Fernández-Armesto is the author of ten books, including Millennium, Truth and Columbus. | ||
| 650 | |v World history. |x Civilization. | ||
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