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100	1		_91586 _aFernández-Armesto, Felipe
245	1	0	_aCivilizations : _bculture, ambition, and the transformation of nature / _cFelipe Fernández-Armesto.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _cc2001.
300			_a545 p. : _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe itch to civilize -- 1. The helm of ice: ice worlds and tundra as human habitats -- 2. The death of Earth: adaptation and counteradaptation in deserts of sand -- 3. The sweepings of the wind: prairy and grassy savanna -- 4. The highway of civilizations: the eurasian steppe -- 5. The wild woods: postglacial and temperate woodland -- 6. Hearts of darkness: tropical lowlands -- 7. The lone and level sands: misleading cases in the Near East -- 8. Of shoes and rice: transcending environments of origin in China and India -- 9. The gardens of the clouds: the highland civilizations of the New World -- 10. The climb to paradise: the highland civilizations of the Old World -- 11. The allotments of the gods: small-islands civilizations -- 12. The view from the shore: the nature of seaboard civilizations -- 13. Chasing the monsoon: seaboard -- 14. The tradition of Ulysses: the Greek and Roman seabords -- 15. Almost the last environment: the rise of oceanic civilizations -- 16. Refloating Atlantis: the making of Atlantic civilization -- 17. The Atlantic and after: Atlantic supremacy and the global outlook.
520			_aErudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To the author, Oxford historian Felipe Fernádez-Armesto, a society's relationship to climate, geography, and ecology are paramount in determining its degree of success. "Unlike previous attempts to write the comparative history of civilizations," he writes, "it is arranged environment by environment, rather than period by period or society by society." Thus, for example, tundra civilizations of Ice Age Europe are linked with those of the Inuit of the Pacific Northwest, the Mississippi Mound Builders with the deforesters of eleventh-century Europe. Civilizations brilliantly connects the world of ecologist, geologist, and geographer with the panorama of cultural history.
650		0	_973 _aCivilization _xHistory
650		0	_91583 _aHuman geography
650		0	_9642 _aHuman ecology
650		0	_91587 _aNature _xEffect of human beings on
650		0	_91051 _aAmbition _xHistory
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