Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature - Couverture souple

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 074320249X ISBN 13 : 9780743202497

Editeur : Free Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 Fernández-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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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 numerous books, including Millenium: A History of the Last Thousand Years and Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Free Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074320249X
• ISBN 13: 9780743202497
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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