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Homosexuality & civilization /

"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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xv, 623 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-597) and index.
ISBN:9780674030060
0674030060
9780674011977
067401197X