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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2003
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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 |
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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 |