Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 04 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 074320249X
ISBN 13: 9780743202497

Media Reviews

George Scialabba The Boston Globe This is a history that highlights not warfare but farming, fishing, hunting, and herding...Civilizations does this so engagingly and so compellingly that many of its readers will henceforth find themselves thinking about the past in the latter categories...Stupendously informative and elegantly written, Civilizations is an embarrassment of riches.
J. R. McNeill The New York Times Book Review Startling comparisons and imaginative characterizations...Fern ndez-Armesto wanders around the globe and across 10,000 years of history putting things together that by conventional methods are always kept apart...
John Gamino The Dallas Morning News Brilliant and brilliantly provocative...Mr. Fern ndez-Armesto [is] the best candidate we have to succeed Toynbee.

Author Bio

Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto is a Professorial Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Modern History Faculty at Oxford University. He is the author of twelve books, including Millennium and Truth: A History.