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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.
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It is a rare gift that a brilliant and original historian is also a felicitious and riveting writer. Fernandez-Armesto is just such a writer/historian. Author of the bestselling Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years and Professor of Modern History at Oxford University,... Read Full Overview