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The term 'idiot' is a damning put down, whether deployed on the playground or in the board room. People stigmatized as being 'intellectually disabled' today must confront variants of the fear and pity with which society has greeted them for centuries. This study explores how artistic, scientific, and sociological interpretations of idiocy work symbolically and ideologically in society. Drawing upon a broad spectrum of British, French and American resources, including literary works, pedagogical works, medical and scientific papers, and sociological writings, the book offers a study of the history and representation of mental disability

How have objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years? Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. This set brings together over 50 scholars, in 1776 pages, to examine how the world of human subjects shapes and is shaped by the world of material objects. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: Objecthood; Technology; Economic Objects; Everyday Objects; Art; Architecture; Bodily Objects; Object Worlds. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (500 BCE to 500 CE); 2 - Medieval Age (500 to 1400); 3 - Renaissance (1400 to 1600); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1600 to 1760); 5 - Age of Industry (1760 to 1900); 6 - Modern Age (1900 to the present). The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Objects is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com)

Man, the Hunter? -- The Hunting Perplex: Killing, Ambivalence, and Dominance -- The Democratization of the Hunt in North America -- From Depression to Affluence: Realigning Our Relationship to Nature -- Living with Wildlife -- Continuities and Contingencies: Hunting in the Twenty-First Century.

A Cultural History of Color presents a history of 5000 years of color in western culture. The first systematic and comprehensive history, the work examines how color has been perceived, developed, produced and traded, and how it has been used in all aspects of performance - from the political to the religious to the artistic - and how it shapes all we see, from food and nature to interiors and architecture, to objects and art, to fashion and adornment, to the color of the naked human body, and to the way our minds work and our languages are created. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: Color Philosophy and Science; Color Technology and Trade; Power and Identity; Religion and Ritual; Body and Clothing; Language and Psychology; Literature and the Performing Arts; Art; Architecture and Interiors; Artefacts. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (3,000 BCE to 500 CE); 2 - Medieval Age (500 to 1400); 3 - Renaissance (1400 to 1650); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1650 to 1800); 5 - Age of Industry (1800 to 1920); 6 - Modern Age (1920 to the present). The page extent for the pack is approximately 1720pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Color is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com

What has driven humanity to expand across the globe? How was it achieved? And what has it meant to be on the receiving end - not the explorer but the explored?In a work that spans more than 5,000 years, these questions are addressed by 40 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Aided by a wide range of case material, they illustrate the meaning of exploration in a global context from antiquity to the present day. Individual volume editors ensure of the cohesion of the whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in a single volume, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity; 2. The Middle Ages; 3. The Early Modern Age; 4. The Age of Expansion and Enlightenment; 5. The Industrial Age; 6. The Modern Age.Themes (and chapter titles) are: technologies of exploration; motivations and methodologies for exploration; ideal and idealized explorer typologies; the explored and their explorations; verbalizing exploration; visualizing exploration; and authority, finance, and exploration.The page extent for the set is approximately 1,500 pp. Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £395 / $550 (full price: £440 / $610)The Cultural Histories SeriesA Cultural History of Exploration is part of the Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library, updated twice a year and available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access. . See www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com for further information or to access content

v. 1. A cultural history of objects in Antiquity / edited by Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom -- v. 2. A cultural history of objects in the Medieval Age / edited by Julie Lund, University of Oslo, Norway and Sarah Semple, University of Durham, UK --

""Recommended""--Choice; ""exhaustive...fascinating""--Historic Environment; ""recommended""--Public Library Quarterly; ""valuable""--History News; ""remarkable...useful""--Journal of Popular Culture; ""extensive...wonderfully detailed""--Libraries & Culture; ""definitive""--Seattle Weekly. ""Informative""--Richard Gid Powers, professor of history, The Graduate Center, City University of New York ""Definitive""--Richard J. Cox, professor, archival studies, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh This work is a cultural history of five thousand years of time capsules and o

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series -- Preface -- Introduction: Writing a Cultural History of Law in Antiquity Julen Etxabe, University of Helsinki, Finland -- 1. Justice Kathryn Slanski, Yale University, USA -- 2. Constitution Jill Frank, Cornell University, USA -- 3. Codes Barry Wimpfheimer, Northwestern University, USA -- 4. Agreements Roberto Fiori, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy -- 5. Arguments David Mirhady, Simon Fraser University, Canada -- 6. Property and Possession Paul J. du Plessis, University of Edinburgh, UK -- 7. Wrongs Jacob Giltaij, University of Helsinki, Finland -- 8. Legal Profession Kaius Tuori, University of Helsinki, Finland -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is usually associated with the writer and collector William Beckford, who built his Gothic fantasy house Fonthill Abbey at the end of the 18th century. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man's excesses. Beckford's Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early 16th century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished and all of them totally oddly forgotten by historians. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore all of the rich cultural history of this famous estate.