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Title: Homosexuality and Civilization : by Louis Crompton ISBN: 0-674-01197-X Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Homosexuality and Civilization
Comment: Based on the best recent scholarship and providing an overview of homosexuality from the Greeks to the end of the 18th century, this levelheaded, easy-to-read volume confirms the fact that homosexuality has had a long history (with periods of greater or less toleration). Crompton (English, Univ. of Nebraska) devotes three chapters to Greece and Rome, three to Christianity and the later medieval world, and three to the 18th century; single chapters treat ancient Judea, imperial China, Italy in the Renaissance, Spain and the Inquisition, France from Calvin to Louis XIV, England from the Reformation to William III, and pre-Mejei Japan. This is primarily an intellectual history of attitudes about homosexuality with emphasis on individual homosexuals, both female and male. Crompton assumes that the reader will be conscious of the general course of history and includes only brief introductory passages to set the stage. He bases much of the book on standard translations of primary sources, many of them retranslated from the Victorian versions, in which same-sex relations were often ignored or "cleaned up." There is an extensive bibliography and the sources are cited in endnotes. The result is the best historical overview of the topic that this reviewer has read.
Rating: 5
Summary: The essential text for lesbian and gay history.
Comment: It took me a couple of weeks to read this book, but it was worth it. Professor Crompton's book is a comprehensive history of lesbians and gay men, in Europe and Asia, from Classical Greece to the Age of Napoleon (1789-1815). His book runs out of steam after 1810, and does not deal with Africa or the Americas, but within its limitations it is first rate. I enjoyed the illustrations, the brief biographies of "great gays in history," and the extensive bibliography (a guide for further reading). All in all, "Homosexuality and Civilization" is esential reading for queer history buffs and should be the required text for any future GLBT history course.
Rating: 5
Summary: A major, major accomplishment
Comment: This book is almost as astonishing as "The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality" -- which I consider to be very high praise indeed!
At first, I suspected that this was going to be just another review of all the stuff which every informed scholar is aware of. But I got a big surprise! This book is loaded with fascinating stuff I had never heard of before!
An example would be "The Sacred Band of Thebes." Most scholars are familiar with the name, and vaguely aware that there must have been an army of gay lovers behind that name. But HERE you will find out when they were organized, why, their major victories over tyranny, and their final, tragic defeat. And you will also find the name of a closeted British group which is restoring the monuments which mark their grave.
But that's just an example! This is a book for happy learning! The author has put a lifetime of effort into this book, and he has achieved a book for the ages. Matchless history and analysis.
Highest possible recommendation!!!
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Title: Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb ISBN: 039302038X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985 by James McCourt ISBN: 0393050513 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title:Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection ASIN: B00014NE62 Publisher: Public Media Inc Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.46 |
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Title: Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard ISBN: 0520234308 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Gay Marriage : Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America by Jonathan Rauch ISBN: 0805076336 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 07 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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