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“carmen nocentelli”

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  • Empires of Love

    Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

    by Carmen Nocentelli ...
    Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • England's Asian Renaissance

    by Abdulhamit Arvas, Richmond Barbour, Thea Buckley, Jennifer Feather, Nedda Mehdizadeh, Rachana Sachdev, Amrita Sen, Emily Soon ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Empires of Love

    Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

    by Carmen Nocentelli ...
    Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World

    Edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ...
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  • The West

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    by Naoíse Mac Sweeney ...
    **“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk RoadsPrize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece ... Read more

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  • On Savage Shores

    How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

    by Caroline Dodds Pennock ...
    **AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"On Savage Shores not only changes how we think about the first contact between America and Europe but also sets the ... Read more

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  • England in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Jeremy Black ...
    A social history of Renaissance England that raises the curtain on the cultural influences that inspired Shakespeare's plays.How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Invented Fiction

    How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

    by William Egginton ...
    In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

    Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750

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    A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world. Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of Florence, Venice and elsewhere, they brought to light an extraordinary world of early modern sexual activity, extending from city ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Carl Thompson ...
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    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... Read more

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  • Civil Wars

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