Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the Nature of civilization. "Unlike previous attempts to write the comparative history of civilization.
To the author, Oxford historian Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto, a society\'s relationship to climate, geography, and ecology are paramount in determining its degree of success.
Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the Nature of civilization
