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CB151.F47 2001
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TITLE:
Civilizations : culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature / Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
AUTHOR:
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
PUBLISHED:
New York : Free Press, c2001.
DESCRIPTION:
xii, 545 p. ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Library Journal
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Pub Weekly
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Examines the history of world civilizations from the perspective of the environments in which they developed, looking at seventeen distinct ecosystems, grouped in the categories of desert, tundra, ice; grasslands; tropical lowlands and postglacial forests; drying climates; highlands; the sea; and the oceans.
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Interest level: Adult
SUBJECT:
Civilization--History.
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Human geography.
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Human ecology.
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Nature--Effect of human beings on.
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Ambition--History.
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Human influence on nature.
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