Man and the Natural World. Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800, Paperback - Keith Thomas

Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800.

Employing a rigorous methodological approach and analysing a vast body of sources from towns and regions in Italy, France and England over 300 year...

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Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent par...

Publisher: Distributed Art PublishersNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 238 x 289 x 39Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Ilona Katze...

How did popular and elite beliefs about the next world, and about supernatural forces in this world, change and develop as a result of the Reformat...

Contributor(s): Editor: Keith WrightsonThe rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has b...

This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain...

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It is an article of faith central to fairy belief today that they are beings intimately connected with nature- they are the elemental spirits, even...

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A powerful account of how the complex mercantile and military relationships between the British, Dutch, and American territories made the Industria...

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DescriptionIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purp...

This landmark, first-of-its-kind anthology presents a groundbreaking perspective on women's writing about the natural world and our place within it...

Explores the expectations and experiences of women in the crucial period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.

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With an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this ground...

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Beginning in the 16th century, the golden age of European navigation brought about the flowering of an abundant textile trade, spurred by Western t...

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Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Leopoldine van Hogendorp ProsperettiIllustration(s): 68 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 160...

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A letter to the country, from the Archbishop of York, on why the Christian narrative still makes sense.

This sumptuous volume reveals the lives of some of history's greatest explorers, using the specimens they collected, the letters they wrote and the...

Offers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an unequalled engagement between race ...