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Chinese money in global context : historic junctures between 600 BCE and 2012 / by Horesh, Niv

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Greek prostitutes in the ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE

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Biographical dictionary of Chinese women antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E. /

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Homosexuality & civilization by Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009

Table of Contents: “…Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- Christians and pagans: 1-565 CE -- Darkness descends: 476-1049 -- Medieval world: 1050-1321 -- Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849 -- Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609 -- Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700 -- France from Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715 -- England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702 -- Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868 -- Patterns of persecution: 1700-1730 -- Sapphic lovers: 1700-1793 -- The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.…”
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The family a world history / by Maynes, Mary Jo

Table of Contents: “…Domestic life and human origins (to 5000 BCE) -- The birth of the gods: family in the emergence of religions and cosmologies -- Ruling families: kinship at the dawn of politics (ca. 3000 BCE to 1450 CE) -- Family dynamics in a global frame (1400-1750) -- Families in global markets (1600-1850) -- Families in revolutionary times (1750-1920) -- Powers of life and death: families in the era of state population management (1880 to the present).…”
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Masculinities in Chinese history / by Hinsch, Bret

Table of Contents: “…Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE) : separation of the sexes -- Han Dynasty (206 BCE 220 ce) : honor culture -- Jin Dynasty (265-420) : Buddhism and changing masculinity -- Tang Dynasty (618-907) : masculine honor and women -- Song Dynasty (960-1279) : cultural capital and manhood -- Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) : marginal heroes -- Late qing and republican eras : modernizing masculinity -- Revolution, reform, and beyond.…”
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Secular cycles by Turchin, Peter, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the theoretical background -- Medieval England : the Plantagenet cycle (1150-1485) -- Early modern England : the Tudor-Stuart cycle (1485-1730) -- Medieval France : the Capetian cycle (1150-1450) -- Early modern France : the Valois cycle (1450-1660) -- Rome : the Republican cycle (350-30 BCE) -- Rome : the Principate cycle (30 BCE-285 CE) -- Russia : the Muscovy cycle (1460-1620) -- Russia : the Romanov cycle (1620-1922) -- General Conclusions.…”
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In search of the lost feminine decoding the myths that radically reshaped civilization / by Barnes, Craig S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : rewriting the story of western civilization -- Minoan artifacts challenge the inevitability of patriarchy -- The mystery of Minoan civilization -- An expectation of rebirth or immortality -- Time as a circle rather than a line -- The troubling question of war -- Crete and the issue of female sexuality -- The ecstatic and the divine as inseperable -- Five values dramatically at odds with patriarchy -- The collapse of the Minoan world -- The invasions of 1600 BCE : a war culture emerges -- The Theran explosion : the loss of faith in Mother Earth -- The growth of trade : the diminishment of daughters -- The great civil war over marriage : the end of women-centered culture in the eastern Mediterranean -- A warrior civilization emerges -- Four hundred years of chaos sets the stage -- Values shaped by storytellers -- An exaggerated feminine is made monstrous -- Mother Earth is overthrown -- Jason resists the many shapes of seductive women -- Odysseus rejects Calypso -- Homer poses the choice between love and property -- Clytemnestra is sacrificed on the altar of marriage -- Marriage destroys the mother-daughter bond -- Daughters die for civic good -- A multitude of myths to tame, punish, and disparage women -- Oedipus, the lost son -- A glorious monument enshrining the subordination of women -- Biblical patriarchs match the Greek story -- Objections to the warrior civilization -- Jesus carries forward the Eleusian symbolism of grain and wine -- Jesus takes on the threat of military destruction -- Ancient beliefs spring up among the Celts -- A short-lived Islamic challenge -- The metaphor of the holy grail -- Devil talk and witch burnings -- Closing the book on the patriarchy -- History as a choice of stories -- Women coming home to dignity -- The declining utility of war -- Another story all along.…”
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