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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...The origins of the modern Western concept of money can be traced back to the e... The origins of the modern Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE. While other forms of currency (shells jewelry silver ingots) were in widespread use long... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...In this volume tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically from its misty or... In this volume tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically from its misty origins in archaic Greece through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world to its new and very different... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: incr... The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services especially in the new metropolises; new technologies and infrastructures emerged for saving and... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In mu... Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but in practice precious metal did not necessarily change hands and indeed coinage... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe.... The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe. Change began with a riot of experimentation including novel ideas about human agency and capacity to promote economic progress efforts to reframe divinity in terms (like the... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Bracketed by global financial crises and economic downturns the modern age has... Bracketed by global financial crises and economic downturns the modern age has been defined by debates about and transformations of money. The period witnessed the consolidation of national currencies and monetary policies as well as the... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...In a time before large banking systems and with paper money just in its infanc... In a time before large banking systems and with paper money just in its infancy money during the Renaissance meant coinage (mainly gold and silver) and local credit systems. These monetary forms had a significant influence on the ways in which money... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient tim... A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume A Cultural History... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Home is a powerful idea throughout antiquity from Odysseus epic journey to rec... Home is a powerful idea throughout antiquity from Odysseus epic journey to recover his own home nostalgically longed-for through his long absence to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It ... The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food but also a well-traveled roadway and a means to communicate trade with or wage war against one s neighbors. Perhaps because these practical... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Patient disease and physician were the three corners of the medical triangle a... Patient disease and physician were the three corners of the medical triangle according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates a famous ancient Greek doctor. This volume covering a period from roughly 800 BCE to 800 CE examines and deconstructs... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in di... This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-century world. In the long nineteenth century democracy evolved from a contested maligned conception of... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...For the first time a group of distinguished authors come together to provide a... For the first time a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy they argue have been greatly... more
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Interlink Cultural Histories: ...Within a generation San Francisco grew from an isolated Mexican trading post w... Within a generation San Francisco grew from an isolated Mexican trading post with more hills than people into America s major Pacific Coast city. This second edition reveals modern-day San Francisco as a city of landmarks psychedelia and writers and... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote deformity is opposed not to ... Eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote deformity is opposed not to beauty but to the complete common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other the man is deformed; because there is something wanting to complete the... more
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