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Civilizations Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

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01.06.2002

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Simon & Schuster N.Y.

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.06.2002

Abbildungen

schwarz-weiss Illustrationen

Verlag

Simon & Schuster N.Y.

Seitenzahl

562

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/3,3 cm

Gewicht

945 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7432-0249-7

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  • Contents

    Preface

    Introduction: THE ITCH TO CIVILIZE

    Civilizations and Civilization
    The Civilizing Ingredient

    The Glutinous Environment

    The Mask and Apollo: Recent Definitions and Approaches

    Reaching Between Civilizations -- and Reaching for the Unity of Civilization

    Process and Progress

    The Checklist of Civilization

    Back to Nature: Array by Environment

    Two Cheers for Civilization

    PART ONE: THE WASTE LAND

    Desert, Tundra, Ice

    Chapter One: THE HELM OF ICE

    ICE WORLDS AND TUNDRA AS HUMAN HABITATS

    The Ice Age in Europe -- Northern Scandinavia -- Asiatic Tundra -- Arctic America -- Greenland
    Beyond the Gates of Gog: The Savage North

    Followers of the Ice

    The Tamers of Reindeer

    Companions of the Seal Bladders: Deference to Nature in Arctic America

    Better Than Civilization: The Inuit in Competition with Europeans

    Chapter Two: THE DEATH OF EARTH

    ADAPTATION AND COUNTERADAPTATION IN DESERTS OF SAND

    The North American Southwest -- Northern Peru -- the Sahara -- the Gobi --
    the Kalahari
    Learning from Hohokam: How to Build Civilization in the Desert

    The Lakes of Worms: The Limits of Civilization in the Sahara

    Lands of Unrest: Desert Highways Between Civilizations

    Spirits of the Slippery Hills: Bushmen and Civilization

    PART TWO: LEAVES OF GRASS

    Barely Cultivable Grasslands

    Chapter Three: THE SWEEPINGS OF THE WIND

    PRAIRIE AND GRASSY SAVANNA

    The Great Plains -- the African Savanna -- the Sahel
    The Intractable Grasslands

    The Architects of the Savanna

    Imperialists of the Sahel

    Chapter Four: THE HIGHWAY OF CIVILIZATIONS

    THE EURASIAN STEPPE
    The Wastes of Gog

    A Confucian Contemplates the Wild

    The Making of Mongol Imperialism

    The Mongol Roads: Causeways of Civilization

    PART THREE: UNDER THE RAIN

    Civilization in Tropical Lowlands and Postglacial Forests

    Chapter Five: THE WILD WOODS

    POSTGLACIAL AND TEMPERATE WOODLAND

    Cases of Deforestation -- the American Bottom -- North American Temperate Forests -- Europe
    The Fear of Trees: Learning to Clear the Forests

    The Great Wet: Early Civilizations of the North American Woodlands

    The Longhouse of Elm: Civilization by the Evergreen Frontier

    Riding the Lumber Raft: Europe After the Forest

    The Retreat of the Trees: From Forests to Cities in Twelfth-Century Europe

    f0 Chapter Six: HEARTS OF DARKNESS

    TROPICAL LOWLANDS

    Frederik Hendrik Island -- the Olmec Heartland -- Low Amazonia -- the Lowland Maya Lands -- the Valleys of the Khmer -- Benin City
    The Habitable Hell: Cultivating the Swamp

    Amazon Lands: The Challenge of the Rain Forest

    The Tongue in the Stones: The Lowland Maya

    The Beloved of the Snake: Khmer Civilization on the Mekong

    The City of Death: Benin

    PART FOUR: THE SHINING FIELDS OF MUD

    Alluvial Soils in Drying Climates

    Chapter Seven: THE LONE AND LEVEL SANDS

    MISLEADING CASES IN THE NEAR EAST

    The Çarsamba floodplain -- the Jordan Valley -- Sumer and Egypt
    The Yielding Soil: Early Intensifiers of Agriculture

    The Garden of the Lord: Alluvial Archetypes

    Back from Diffusion: The Great River Valleys

    From Sumer to Babylon

    Out of the Underworld: The "Gift of the Nile"

    Chapter Eight: OF SHOES AND RICE

    TRANSCENDING ENVIRONMENTS OF ORIGIN IN CHINA AND INDIA

    The Indus, Yellow, and Yangtze Rivers
    Seals in the Sand: Lost Cities of the Indus and the Origins of India

    Millet and Rice, River and River: The Making of China

    The Checklist of Shang Civilization

    The Phoenix of the East: The Survival of China

    Expansion Without Mutation: The Chinese Grossraum

    PART FIVE: THE MIRRORS OF SKY

    Civilizing Highlands

    Chapter Nine: THE GARDENS OF THE CLOUDS

    The Highland Civilizations of the New World

    Mesoamerica and the Andes
    Altitude and Isolation: Classifying Highland Civilizations

    Ascent to Tiahuanaco: Predecessors of the Inca

    Places for the Gods: The Context of the Aztecs

    Contrasting Worlds: The Aztecs and Inca Juxtaposed

    The Vengeance of the Tribute-Bearers: Environment and Empire

    Chapter Ten: THE CLIMB TO PARADISE

    THE HIGHLAND CIVILIZATIONS OF THE OLD WORLD

    New Guinea -- Zimbabwe -- Ethiopia -- Iran -- Tibet
    The Last El Dorado

    The African Predicament

    The Mountains of Rasselas: Civilization in Ethiopia

    High Roads of Civilization: Overlooking Asian Trade Routes

    Looking Down from Tibet

    PART SIX: THE WATER MARGINS

    Civilizations Shaped by the Sea

    Chapter Eleven: THE ALLOTMENTS OF THE GODS

    SMALL-ISLAND CIVILIZATIONS

    The "South Seas" -- Hawaii and Easter Island -- the Aleutians -- the Maldives -- Malta -- Minoan Crete -- Venice
    The Tangle of Isles: Polynesian Navigation

    Surviving Isolation: Hawaii and Easter Island

    The Wind's Nest: The Islands of the Aleut

    Ports of Call: From the Maldives to Malta

    The Wreck of Paradise: Minoan Crete

    The Creature of the Lagoon: Venice as a Small-Island Civilization

    Chapter Twelve: THE VIEW FROM THE SHORE

    THE NATURE OF SEABOARD CIVILIZATIONS

    The Oran laut -- Phoenicia and Scandinavia -- the Maritime Netherlands
    The Sea People: Adapting to the Waves

    The Narrow Shores: Phoenicia and Scandinavia

    The Atlantic Edge

    The Frustrations of Rimland: The Early Phase

    "An Equilibrium of Mud and Water": Coaxing Civilization from the Shoals

    Beyond the Beach: Identifying Seaboard Civilizations

    Chapter Thirteen: CHASING THE MONSOON

    SEABOARD CIVILIZATIONS OF MARITIME ASIA

    Japan -- Maritime Arabia -- Southeast Asia -- Coromandel and Gujarat -- Fukien
    Riders of the Typhoon: Maritime Japan

    Caravans of the Monsoon: The Arabs and Their Seas

    The Ring of the Snake: The Seas of Southeast Asia

    The Seas of Milk and Butter: Maritime India

    China's Frontier to the Sea: Fukien

    Chapter Fourteen: THE TRADITION OF ULYSSES

    THE GREEK AND ROMAN SEABOARDS

    Boeotia -- the Greeks Overseas -- Athens -- the Aegean and Ionian Seas -- Rome -- the Roman Empire -- the Renaissances and Their Settings
    The Plow and the Prow: A Conversation with Hesiod

    The Pursuit of Galatea: Greece Takes to the Sea

    The Claim of Poseidon: Athens and the Sea

    A Hellenic Cruise: Five Wonders of Antiquity

    Around the Middle Sea: Ancient Rome as a Seaboard Civilization

    The Reach of the Classics: The Global Spread of the Greek and Roman Legacies

    PART SEVEN: BREAKING THE WAVES

    The Domestication of the Oceans

    Chapter Fifteen: ALMOST THE LAST ENVIRONMENT

    THE RISE OF OCEANIC CIVILIZATIONS

    From the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic -- from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean
    The Muslim Lake

    The Precocity of the Indian Ocean

    From the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic: The Shadow of Vasco da Gama

    The Round Trip of Vasco da Gama

    Chapter Sixteen: REFLOATING ATLANTIS

    THE MAKING OF ATLANTIC CIVILIZATION

    Cultural Transmission from Europe to America and Back
    The Origins of the European Atlantic

    The Technological Strand

    The Power of Culture

    The Tyranny of the Timing

    Atlantic Civilization in Black and White: The Imperial Phase

    The World the Slaves Made

    Chapter Seventeen: THE ATLANTIC AND AFTER

    ATLANTIC SUPREMACY AND THE GLOBAL OUTLOOK

    From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- from the Pacific to the World
    Crises and Renewals of Atlantic Civilization

    The Limits and Limitations of Western Civilization

    Next Stop after the Atlantic

    The Revenge of Nature

    The Self-Threatened Menace

    The Last Ocean

    Epilogue: In Derek Jarman's Garden

    Notes

    Index