{"product_id":"civilizations-felipe-fernandez-armesto-9780743202497","title":"Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature","description":"Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, \u003ci\u003eCivilizations\u003c\/i\u003e redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. \u003cbr\u003e To the author, Oxford historian Felipe Fern疣dez-Armesto, a society's relationship to climate, geography, and ecology are paramount in determining its degree of success. \"Unlike previous attempts to write the comparative history of civilizations,\" he writes, \"it is arranged environment by environment, rather than period by period or society by society.\" Thus, for example, tundra civilizations of Ice Age Europe are linked with those of the Inuit of the Pacific Northwest, the Mississippi Mound Builders with the deforesters of eleventh-century Europe. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCivilizations\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly connects the world of ecologist, geologist, and geographer with the panorama of cultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Felipe Fernandez-Armesto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 074320249X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743202497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/24\/2001 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/22\/2002 pg. 28","brand":"Felipe Fernandez-Armesto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994889322751,"sku":"9780743202497","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_78683085-1f23-46e5-bba6-5bccc09d510d.jpg?v=1683332768","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/civilizations-felipe-fernandez-armesto-9780743202497","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}