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Télécharger le livre :  Empires and Colonies
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Empires and Colonies


Jonathan Hart


Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing...

Parution : 2014-02-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Themes in History
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29,86
Télécharger le livre :  Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day
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Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day


Mark Harrison


‘Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a...

Parution : 2013-05-08
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Themes in History
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22,68
Télécharger le livre :  Clothing
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Clothing


Robert Ross


In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compelling account and analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time it takes seriously those places...

Parution : 2013-05-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Themes in History
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21,52
Télécharger le livre :  Nature
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Nature


Peter Coates


'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of human attitudes and human impacts. Coates outlines the major understandings of 'nature' in the western world since classical...

Parution : 2013-04-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Themes in History
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25,64
Télécharger le livre :  Sex Before Sexuality
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Sex Before Sexuality


Kim M. Phillips , Barry Reay


Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love,...

Parution : 2013-04-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Themes in History
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20,26

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