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Product Description: Al-Hasan al-Wazzanâborn in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Moroccoâbecame famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the Pope; when he was released and baptized, he lived a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone; by 1527, it is likely that he returned to North Africa and to the language, culture, and faith in which he had been raised...read more
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9780809094349 | Hill & Wang Pub, March 7, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Presents the story of Leo Africanus and his famous sixteenth-century geography of Africa that was to introduce the continent to European readers, in a detailed history that documents such elements of his life as his imprisonment by the pope, work as a Christian writer, and relationships with powerful individuals from a range of cultures and religions.
Paperback:
9780809094356 | Hill & Wang Pub, March 6, 2007, cover price $18.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781522679813 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, July 12, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Al-Hasan al-Wazzanâborn in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Moroccoâbecame famous as the great Renaissance writer Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550).
Paperback:
9788437617398, titled "Mujeres de los margenes / Women Margins" | Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2004, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: MUJERES DE LOS MARGENES.
Product Description: The written word and what the eye can see are brought together in this fascinating foray into the depiction of resistance to slavery through the modern medium of film. Davis, whose book The Return of Martin Guerre was written while she served as consultant to the French film of the same name, now tackles the large issue of how the moving picture industry has portrayed slaves in five major motion pictures spanning four generations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674004443 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A survey of slaves on film analyzes five films Spartacus, Burn!
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9780674008212 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 30, 2002, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The written word and what the eye can see are brought together in this fascinating foray into the depiction of resistance to slavery through the modern medium of film.
Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relationsâor do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most interesting and renowned historians. In a wide-ranging look at gift giving in early modern France, Natalie Zemon Davis reveals the ways that gift exchange is crucial to understanding alliance and conflict in family life, economic relations, politics, and religion. Moving from the kingâs bounty to the beggarâs alms, her book explores the modes and meanings of gift giving in every corner of sixteenth-century French society. In doing so, it arrives at a new way of considering giftsâwhat Davis calls "the gift register"âas a permanent feature of social relations over time. Gift giving, with its own justifications and forms in different periods, can create amity or lead to quarrels and trouble. It mixes the voluntary and the obligatory, with interested bribery at one extreme and inspired gratuitousness at the other. Examining gifts both ethnographically (through archives, letters, and other texts) and culturally (through literary, ethical, and religious sources), Davis shows how coercive features in family life and politics, rather than competition from the market, disrupted the gift system. This intriguing book suggests that examining the significance of gifts can not only help us to understand social relations in the past, but teach us to deal graciously with each other in the present.
Hardcover:
9780199242887 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $55.01
9780299168803 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Must a gift be given freely?
Paperback:
9780299168841 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Must a gift be given freely?
Hardcover:
9780674955202 | Belknap Pr, October 16, 1995, cover price $27.50
Paperback:
9780674955219 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, April 25, 1997), cover price $30.50
Product Description: Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine...read more
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9780674403727 | Belknap Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $56.50 | About this edition: Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world and during the Middle Ages
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9780674403673 | 1 edition (Belknap Pr, March 1, 1995), cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family.
Paperback:
9780745605326 | Polity Pr, January 15, 1991, cover price $45.99
Hardcover:
9780804714129 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Book by Davis, Natalie Zemon
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9780804717991 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $25.95
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9780873910385 | Smith College Library, June 1, 1985, cover price $4.00
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9780804709729 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 1977, cover price $29.95
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9780804708685 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 1, 1975, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Eight essays explore key aspects of the lives and values of sixteenth-century French peasant, artisan, poor, and tradesmen as they reflect the competing claims of tradition and innovation.
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