This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at ...most universities. This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been interpreting the history of the family, ever since Laurence Stone's seminal work FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND 1500-1800 was published in 1977.The text is divided into three coherent parts on the following themes: bodies and reproduction; maternity from a feminist perspective; and family relationships. Each part is prefaced by a short introduction commenting on new work in the area.This book will appeal to a wide variety of students because of its sociological, historical and economic foci.
This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, ...Japan, all Southeast Asian countries and some in Europe and the Americas). Starting in the 16th century, slavery and opium became the two means with which the bodies and souls of men and women in the tropics were exploited in western imperialism and colonialism. The first waned with the abolition movement in the 19th century, but opium production and trade continued to spread, with the associated serious social and political effects. Around 1670 the Dutch introduced opium as a cash crop for mass production and distribution in India and Indonesia. China became the main target in the 19th century, and only succeeded in getting rid of the opium problem around 1950. Then it had already been transformed from an “Eastern” into a “Western” problem.
Castaways ALVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
04/2023
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This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of
the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author
of Castaways ( Naufragios ), Alvar Núñez Cabeza de
Vaca, was a ...fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an
expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's
Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful
of men to make the long westward journey on foot to meet up with
Hernán Cortés. In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native
peoples along the way, learning their languages and practices and
serving them as a slave and later as a physician. When after eight
years he finally reached the West, he was not recognized by his
compatriots. In his writing Cabeza de Vaca displays great interest
in the cultures of the native peoples he encountered on his
odyssey. As he forged intimate bonds with some of them, sharing
their brutal living conditions and curing their sick, he found
himself on a voyage of self-discovery that was to make his reunion
with his fellow Spaniards less joyful than expected. Cabeza de
Vaca's gripping narrative is a trove of ethnographic information,
with descriptions and interpretations of native cultures that make
it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. Frances M.
López-Morillas's translation beautifully captures the
sixteenth-century original. Based as it is on Enrique Pupo-Walker's
definitive critical edition, it promises to become the
authoritative English translation.
Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he ...boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds with most learned physicians. In this fascinating book, Lauren Kassell vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.
Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to ...produce the first account of women's reproductive bodies in early-modern cheap print. Since little was certain about the mysteries of reproduction, the topic lent itself to a rich array of theories. The insides of women's reproductive bodies provided a kind of open interpretive space, a place where many different models of reproductive processes might be plausible. These models were profoundly shaped by cultural concerns; they afforded many ways to discuss and make sense of social, political, and economic changes such as the Protestant Reformation and the Civil War. They gave ordinary people ways of thinking about the changing relations between men and women that characterized these larger social shifts. Fissell offers a new way to think about the history of the body by focusing on women's bodies, showing how ideas about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth were also ways of talking about gender relations and thus all relations of power. Where other histories of the body have focused on learned texts and male bodies, Vernacular Bodies looks at the small books and pamphlets that ordinary people read and listened to - and provides new ways to understand how such people experienced political conflicts and social change.
À l’instar de l’Odyssée d’Homère, Naufragios d’Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542-1555) retrace, entre de multiples autres angles d’approche, un voyage qui s’apparente à un parcours initiatique, ...c’est-à-dire un cheminement vers une conversion intérieure profonde. Cette transformation ontologique passe par trois étapes ou séquences (phases de séparation, de marge et d’agrégation) que cet article se propose d’analyser à la lumière, notamment, des apports de l’anthropologie. Si l’écriture de l’œuvre relève essentiellement d’une entreprise d’auto-glorification de son auteur à travers, notamment, une “héroïsation” et une “messianisation” discursives d’Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, une lecture symbolique s’attachant aux structures anthropologiques de l’imaginaire permet de montrer que certains des composants de l’initiation affleurent à la surface du texte comme dans un palimpseste.
This book is one of the great first-person accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Morrow’s new translation makes Cabeza deVaca’s adventures available to a wide ...English-speaking audience for the first time.
The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyricexamines the poetics of meditation in the French love lyric at the height of the Lyonnais Renaissance as illustrated by one of the country's ...most prominent writers.
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