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Cultural History of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century
Av Tom Archibald, David E. Rowe
Inbunden, 2026
1057 kr
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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1914, an era shaped by expanding European empires and vastly improved systems of transportation and communication. Widening access to schools improved mathematical literacy amongst the public, while the …
Cultural History of Plants
Av Annette Giesecke, David Mabberley
2025
2218 kr
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PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities - Reference Works Finalist 2023Winner of the 2022 Society of Economic Botany’s Daniel F. Austin Award A Cultural History of Plants presents a global exploration of how plants have shaped human culture. Covering the last 12,000 years, it is the definitive …
Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity
Häftad, 2025
309 kr
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A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity covers the period from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE. This period witnessed the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere, and culminated in the fall of the Roman Empire, the end of the Han Dynasty in …
Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity
Häftad, 2025
309 kr
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Volumes 1-6 selected as a 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title This open access book A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and …
Cultural History of Ideas
Av Sophia Rosenfeld, Peter T. Struck
2022
8107 kr
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A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKHow has the nature of ideas evolved over time? How have ideas been shaped, employed and received in different social and cultural contexts?In a work that spans 2,800 years, these ambitious questions …
Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
Av Emily Wilson
Häftad, 2023
442 kr
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In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial …
Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age
Inbunden, 2026
1088 kr
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A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1300, a time when the uses and value of insect products greatly increased. Silk, in particular, created economies and led to increased global trade; trade which, in turn, expanded the scope of insect-borne disease. The …
Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era
Häftad, 2025
382 kr
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A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era covers the period from 1920 to today - a time when population growth, industrialization, global trade, and consumerism have fundamentally reshaped our relationship with plants. Advances in agriculture, science, and technology have revolutionised the …
Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity
Av Clifford Ando, Thomas Habinek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1088 kr
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PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of …
Cultural History of Magic
Av Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Stephen A. Mitchell
2025
7269 kr
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What role has magic played in society through the ages? How has it been practiced and, at times, controlled? How has magic been understood and represented? And how has this understanding differed according to time and place?In a work that spans 2,800 years these ambitious questions are addressed by …
Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age
Häftad, 2023
396 kr
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Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but driven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. The age of expansion saw unparalleled degrees of internal and external exploration and colonization, accompanied by the …
Cultural History of Higher Learning
Av Ning de Coninck-Smith, Julia Horne m. fl.
2025
6721 kr
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How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries.Exploring higher learning rather than universities, the authors examine the full range …
Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity
Av Linda Kalof
Inbunden, 2009
1613 kr
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 Animals had a ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world. A Cultural History of Animals In Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BC to 1000 AD, describing how animals were an intrinsic part of the …
Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity
Av Linda Kalof
Häftad, 2011
474 kr
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 Animals had a ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world. A Cultural History of Animals In Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BCE to 1000 CE, describing how animals were an intrinsic part of the …
Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry
Inbunden, 2022
1236 kr
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A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, such as steam power, lithography, photography, electricity, motor cars, aviation, and cheaper color printing, all contributed to a new exuberance about …
Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment
Av Stella Ghervas, David Armitage
E-bok, 2022
1335 kr
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A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Enlightenment , explores peace …
Cultural History of Food in Antiquity
Av Paul Erdkamp
Inbunden, 2014
1608 kr
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From Archaic Greece until the Late Roman Empire (c. 800 BCE to c. 500 CE), food was more than a physical necessity; it was a critical factor in politics, economics and culture. On the one hand, the Mediterranean landscape and climate encouraged particular crops – notably cereals, vines and olives – …
Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age
Inbunden, 2014
1608 kr
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Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created new political, economic, social and religious structures and practices. Between 500 and 1300 CE, food in all its manifestations, from agriculture to …
Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance
Av Ken Albala
Inbunden, 2014
1608 kr
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Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most …
Cultural History of Food in the Age of Empire
Inbunden, 2014
1608 kr
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The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change. This volume explores and explains the birth of the modern world through the food it produced and consumed. Food security vastly improved though malnutrition and famines persisted. Scientific research radically …
Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age
Av Amy Bentley
Inbunden, 2014
1608 kr
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In the modern age (1920–2000), vast technological innovation spurred greater concentration, standardization, and globalization of the food supply. As advances in agricultural production in the post-World War II era propelled population growth, a significant portion of the population gained access …
Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age
Inbunden, 2013
1608 kr
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The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the …
Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2013
1608 kr
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The history of the garden in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century in Italy to the death of André Le Nôtre in 1700 in France, is a story both of dynamism and codification. The period saw the emergence of what would become archetypal elements of the formal garden and the fixing of …
Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2013
1608 kr
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The Enlightenment raised fundamental questions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, culture and history, the garden offered itself as a practical demonstration, a living experiment, and a site of debate and discourse. The design, planting, …
Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire
Inbunden, 2013
1608 kr
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As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialization and urbanization, they were also motors of change. Gardens became an industry in and of themselves. They were both the last resting places of the dead and …
Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Modern Age
Inbunden, 2018
1376 kr
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Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the pulsations of multiple and simultaneous styles, while the speed of global production and circulation has become ever faster and more complex. Running in …
Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire
Inbunden, 2018
1376 kr
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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time …
Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age
Inbunden, 2018
1376 kr
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During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and …
Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment
Av Peter McNeil
Inbunden, 2018
1376 kr
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Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class …
Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2022
1244 kr
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Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex …
