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A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around t
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Aging in America traces the story of aging over the course of the last half century, demonstrating our culture's ne
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Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population ex
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The history of the garden in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century in Italy to the death of André Le
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The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally
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Through close readings of key texts, including spiritual writings, fairy tales, and a botanical treatise, Golden Fruit e
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A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled t
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