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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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| Формат: | Printed Book |
| Язык: | English |
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London :
Macmillan,
2000.
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Оглавление:
- 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.