Tells the story of urban life through people's bodily experience; how women and men moved, what they saw and heard, how they dressed, when they bathed and how they made love, in the spaces of the city from ancient Athens to modern New York. The author of this book explains why our civilization has had such trouble making a home for the human body. In a chronological survey which takes in Hadrian's Rome and medieval Paris, Renaissance Venice and E.M. Forster's London, he asks how the dignity of physical experience can be ...
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Tells the story of urban life through people's bodily experience; how women and men moved, what they saw and heard, how they dressed, when they bathed and how they made love, in the spaces of the city from ancient Athens to modern New York. The author of this book explains why our civilization has had such trouble making a home for the human body. In a chronological survey which takes in Hadrian's Rome and medieval Paris, Renaissance Venice and E.M. Forster's London, he asks how the dignity of physical experience can be affirmed, today, though understanding of the past.
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Add this copy of Flesh and Stone: the Body and the City in Western to cart. $35.32, very good condition, Sold by Prior Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1994 by Faber.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 1x1x1; Publisher's hardback in better than very good condition: firm and square, strong joints. Complete with original dustjacket, not showing any tears or chips, just lightly edge-worn. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.
Add this copy of Flesh and Stone: the Body and the City in Western to cart. $6.99, very good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1994 by Faber & Faber.
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