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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Main Author: Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003
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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)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-597) and index.
ISBN:9780674030060
0674030060
9780674011977
067401197X
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized