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100 1 _aFernández-Armesto, Felipe,
_d1950-
245 1 0 _aCivilizations :
_bculture, ambition, and the transformation of nature /
_cFelipe Fernández-Armesto.
246 3 _aCulture, ambition and the transformation of nature.
260 _aNew York :
_bFree Press,
_c2001.
300 _axii, 545 p ;
_c25 cm.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [469]-505) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
653 0 _aAmbition
_aHistory
653 0 _aCivilization
_aHistory
653 0 _aHuman ecology
653 0 _aHuman geography
653 0 _aNature
_aEffect of human beings on
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