Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has...
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Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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Language: English
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Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

Dhs. 198.36

Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

Dhs. 198.36
Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Erudite, 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 Fern ndez-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.

Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 06/01/2002
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780743202497


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/24/2001 pg. 29
New York Times 09/22/2002 pg. 28

About the Author
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a Professorial Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Modern History Faculty at Oxford University. He is the author of twelve books, including Millennium and Truth: A History.


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