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| 100 | 1 | _aFernández-Armesto, Felipe. | |
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_aCivilizations : _bculture, ambition, and the transformation of nature / _cFelipe Fernández-Armesto. |
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_aNew York : _bFree Press, _c2001. |
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_axii, 545 p. ; _c25 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | _aWaste land: desert, tundra, ice: Helm of ice, ice worlds and tundra as human habitats--Death of earth, adaptation and counteradaptation in deserts of sand--Leaves of grass, barely cultivable grasslands:--Sweepings of the wind, prairie and grassy savanna--Highway of civilizations, Eurasian steppe--Under the rain, civilization in tropical lowlands and postglacial forests: Wild woods, postglacial and temperate woodland--Hearts of darkness, tropical lowlands--Shining fields of mud, alluvial soils in drying climates: Lone and level sands, misleading cases in the Near East--Of shoes and rice, transcending environments of origin in China and India--Mirrors of sky, civilizing highlands: Gardens of the clouds, highland civilizations of the new world--Climb to paradise, highland civilizations of the old world--Water margins, civilizations shaped by the sea: Allotments of the gods, small-island civilizations--View from the shore: nature of seaboard civilizations--Chasing the monsoon, seaboard civilizations of maritime Asia--Tradition of Ulysses, Greek and Roman seaboards--Breaking the waves, domestication of the oceans: Almost the last environment, rise of oceanic civilizations--Refloating Atlantis, making of Atlantic civilization--Atlantic and after, Atlantic supremacy and the global outlook. | ||
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_aCivilization _xHistory. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aHuman geography. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aHuman ecology. | |
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_aNature _xEffect of human beings on. |
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_aAmbition _xHistory. |
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_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon052/2001018154.html |
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_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon033/2001018154.html |
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_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/2001018154-t.html |
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_3Sample text _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2001018154-s.html |
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