Homosexuality & civilization / Louis Crompton.
"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: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 623 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-597) and index. |
| ISBN: | 067401197X 9780674011977 |