Civilizations : culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
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TextPublication details: New York : Free Press, 2001.Description: xii, 545 p ; 25 cmISBN: - 0743202481
- 9780743202480
- 074320249X (pbk.)
- 9780743202497 (pbk.)
- Culture, ambition and the transformation of nature
- 909
- CB 151 F363c 2001
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| CB 151 C968 2002 La culture : de l'universel au particulier / | CB151 .D628 Le Retour du tragique, essai. | CB 151 D668r 1967 Le retour du tragique / | CB 151 F363c 2001 Civilizations : culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature / | CB 151 F363w 2007 The world : a history / | CB 151 G897l 1990 Lo universal y lo específico en la cultura / | CB 151 H351r 1969 La revolución científica y la política mundial / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-505) and index.
Introduction: The Itch to civilize: civilization and civilization--- Part one: The waste land; desert, tundra, ice--- Part two: Leaves odf grass; barely cultivable grasslands--- Part three: Under he rain; civilization in tropical lowland and postglacial forests--- Part four: The shining fields of mud; alluvial soils in drying climates--- Part five: The mirrors of sky; civilizing highlands--- Part six: The watr margins; civilizations shaped by the sea--- Part seven:Breakiing the waves; the domestication of the oceans.
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