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| Title:
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A HISTORY OF HUMAN BEAUTY |
| By: |
Arthur Marwick |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1852854480 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781852854485 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2004 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
This volume provides an account of the impact human attractiveness, both of men and of women, had on history. |
| Synopsis: |
If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Anthony would have fallen in love with her. It: The History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomized by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth century, modern film stars (male and female) can acquire great wealth simply by the use of their images, while attractiveness on television is an essential modern qualification for power, as shown by Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair. |
| Illustrations: |
24 illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Hambledon Continuum |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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