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"How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Homosexuality > History.
Gender identity > History.
Homophobia > History.
Homosexuality > history
Civilization > history
Homosexuality in art
Homosexuality in literature
Homosexualité > Histoire.
Identité de genre > Histoire.
Homophobie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
HISTORY > World.
Gender identity
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Kultur
Homosexualität
Homoseksualiteit.
Cultuur.
Sekserol.
Homofobie.
Homosexualité
Identité sexuelle.
Histoire.
Homophobie.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 623 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-597) and index.
ISBN:9780674030060
0674030060
9780674011977
067401197X

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