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Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
by Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0743202481
- ISBN 13
- 9780743202480
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Free Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 6x1x9. No culture, Fernández-Armesto writes, is inherently exempt from becoming civilized; nor, he adds, does civilized equate to good. In exploring history as a branch of historical ecology, he sometimes abandons his thesis, intriguing and provocative as it is, to engage in a wide-ranging survey of the world past reminiscent of (but much better-written than) Toynbee and Durant, touching on the ancient Greeks here, the herding peoples of the African savanna and Central Asia there, the Moundbuilders of prehistoric North America and the hunting peoples of the Arctic there. Unlike many standard textbooks, his narrative manages to offer something new wherever he turns.
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- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature
- Author
- Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0743202481
- ISBN 13
- 9780743202480
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 30 oz
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