TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernández-Armesto,Felipe
TI  - Civilizations: culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature 
SN  - 0743202481
AV  - CB 151 F363c 2001
U1  - 909 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Free Press
KW  - Ambition
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-505) and index; Introduction: The Itch to civilize: civilization and civilization--- Part one: The waste land; desert, tundra, ice--- Part two: Leaves odf grass; barely cultivable grasslands--- Part three: Under he rain; civilization in tropical lowland and postglacial forests--- Part four: The shining fields of mud; alluvial soils in drying climates--- Part five: The mirrors of sky; civilizing highlands--- Part six: The watr margins; civilizations shaped by the sea--- Part seven:Breakiing the waves; the domestication of the oceans
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