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A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century
Av Tom Archibald, David E. Rowe
Inbunden, 2026
1047 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 …
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age
Av Noel Fallows
Inbunden, 2022
1221 kr
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A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments, transforming increasingly outdated modes of …
A Cultural History of Insects in the Medieval Age
Inbunden, 2026
1079 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 …
A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era
Häftad, 2025
379 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 …
A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
Av Emily Wilson
Häftad, 2023
439 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 …
A Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity
Av Clifford Ando, Thomas Habinek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1079 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 …
A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age
Häftad, 2023
393 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 …
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age
Inbunden, 2013
1602 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 …
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2013
1602 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 …
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2013
1602 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, …
A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire
Inbunden, 2013
1602 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 …
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Modern Age
Inbunden, 2018
1368 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 …
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire
Inbunden, 2018
1368 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 …
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age
Inbunden, 2018
1368 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 …
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment
Av Peter McNeil
Inbunden, 2018
1368 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 …
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2022
1233 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 …
A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity
Inbunden, 2021
1221 kr
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Marriage, across cultures, is often defined as a union between consenting adults that lasts for the life of the partners. But is marriage a blessing, or curse? Does marriage represent the union of two hearts, or was it a necessary evil? Did matrimony bring a person a helpmeet for life, or was it a …
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age
Av Joanne M. Ferraro, Frederik Pedersen
Inbunden, 2021
1221 kr
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Marriage in Europe became a central pillar of society during the medieval period. Theologians, lawyers, and secular and church leaders agreed on a unique outline of the institution and its legal framework, the essential features of which remained in force until the 1980s. The medieval Western …
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age
Inbunden, 2021
1221 kr
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Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450 and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and religious changes. The period …
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2021
1221 kr
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Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolution? Some people living during the so-called Age of Enlightenment thought so. By marrying for that selfish, personal emotion of love rather than to serve religious or family interests, to serve political demands or the …
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Empires
Inbunden, 2021
1221 kr
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During the age of empires (1800–1900), marriage was a key transition in the life course worldwide, a rite of passage everywhere with major cultural significance. This volume presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; …
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age
Inbunden, 2021
1221 kr
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Spanning cultures across the 20th century, this volume explores how marriage, especially in the West, was disestablished as the primary institution organizing social life. In the developing world, the economic, social, and legal foundations of traditional marriage are stronger but also weakening. …
A Cultural History of Marriage
Volumes 1-6
2019
8009 kr
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How have ideas of marriage evolved in Western culture? How has its influence changed, and been shaped by its social and cultural conditions?In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 52 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in …
A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity
Inbunden, 2026
1079 kr
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A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity covers the period from 1000 BCE to 500 CE. As different cultures expanded so did their interactions with insects, largely seen as vectors of disease and as agricultural and bodily pests. However, as knowledge of insects grew, insect products were …
A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance
Av Ian C Beavis, Sherilyn G.F. Smith
Inbunden, 2026
1079 kr
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A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance covers the period from 1300 to 1600, examining the profound impact of insects on the flowering of culture. In the early part of this period, the unprecedented number of deaths caused by the Plague – spread in part by fleas – encouraged the later rise …
A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2026
1079 kr
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A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period from 1600 to 1820, a time of global exploration, the discovery of species, and advances in scientific technologies and methods. The natural sciences were increasingly shaped by what could be seen, observed, and classified. …
A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Industry
Inbunden, 2026
1079 kr
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A Cultural History of Insects in the Age of Industry covers the period from 1820 to 1920, a time of great technological innovation and intensified trade. As urban populations spread so did pollution, squalor, and disease – and so did education and scientific knowledge. The expeditions of nineteenth …
A Cultural History of Insects in the Modern Age
Inbunden, 2026
1079 kr
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A Cultural History of Insects in the Modern Age covers the period from 1920 to the present, a time of tremendous scientific advances in our understanding of insects and their place in the natural world. The age ushered in an optimism fueled by the power of science and technology to improve the …
A Cultural History of Ideas in the Medieval Age
Inbunden, 2025
1079 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 WORKThis volume of A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Reformation, …
A Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance
Av Jill Kraye
Inbunden, 2025
1079 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 Renaissance is famous as a period of intellectual and cultural flourishing associated with the rebirth of antiquity. It is now recognized, …
