Civilizations

• 作者: Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
• 出版: London : Macmillan 2000.
• 稽核項: xx, 636 p., [24] p. of plates :ill. (some col.), 1 col. map ;24 cm.
• 標題: World history. , Civilization.
• ISBN: 0333901711 , 9780333901717
• 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index. The itch to civilize : civilizations and civilization -- pt. 1. The waste land : desert, tundra, ice -- The helm of ice : ice worlds and tundra as human habitats -- The death of earth : adaptation and counteradaptation in deserts of sand -- pt. 2. Leaves of grass : uncultivable grasslands -- The sweepings of the wind : prairie and grassy savanna -- The highway of civilizations : the Eurasian steppe -- pt. 3. Under the rain : civilization in tropical lowlands and postglacial forests -- The wild woods : postglacial and temperate woodland -- Hearts of darkness : tropical lowlands -- pt. 4. The shining fields of mud : alluvial soils in drying climates -- The lone and level sands : misleading cases in the Near East -- Of shoes and rice : transcending environments of origin in China and India -- pt. 5. The mirrors of sky : civilizing highlands -- The gardens of the clouds : highland civilizations of the new world -- The climb to paradise : highland civilizations of the old world -- pt. 6. The water margins : civilizations shaped by the sea -- The allotments of the gods : small-island civilizations -- The view from the shore : the nature of seaboard civilizations -- Chasing the monsoon : seaboard civilizations of maritime Asia -- The tradition of Ulysses : the Greek and Roman seaboards -- pt. 7. Breaking the waves : the domestication of the oceans -- Almost the last environment : the rise of oceanic civilizations -- Refloating Atlantis : the making of Atlantic civilization -- The Atlantic and after : Atlantic supremacy and the global outlook.
• 摘要: Civilizations is a radical cultural history of mankind's relationship with natue, which advances a new understanding of what it means to be civilised. Fernández-Armesto is the author of ten books, including Millennium, Truth and Columbus.
• 系統號: 005259781
• 資料類型: 圖書
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