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What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History
by Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0300223889
- ISBN 13
- 9780300223880
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About This Item
Yale University Press, 2018. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover with neon orange paper on boards and black lettering to spine. New dust jacket. 8vo. (5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes chapter notes, bibliography and an index. 232 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed
"If you thought that your bed was only good for sleeping in, having sex in, or dying in, then this book will disabuse you-in fact, it's so entertaining, it will keep you awake long into the night."-Paul Chrystal, author of In Bed with the Ancient Greeks and In Bed with the Romans
Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expensive items-and often for show. Tutankhamun was buried on a golden bed, wealthy Greeks were sent to the afterlife on dining beds, and deceased middle-class Victorians were propped up on a bed in the parlor.
In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling, and sociability as well as sleeping. But who did what with whom, why, and how could vary incredibly depending on the time and place. It is only in the modern era that the bed has transformed into a private, hidden zone, and its rich social history has largely been forgotten.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed
"If you thought that your bed was only good for sleeping in, having sex in, or dying in, then this book will disabuse you-in fact, it's so entertaining, it will keep you awake long into the night."-Paul Chrystal, author of In Bed with the Ancient Greeks and In Bed with the Romans
Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expensive items-and often for show. Tutankhamun was buried on a golden bed, wealthy Greeks were sent to the afterlife on dining beds, and deceased middle-class Victorians were propped up on a bed in the parlor.
In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling, and sociability as well as sleeping. But who did what with whom, why, and how could vary incredibly depending on the time and place. It is only in the modern era that the bed has transformed into a private, hidden zone, and its rich social history has largely been forgotten.
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- The Anthropologists Closet
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200218
- Title
- What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History
- Author
- Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300223889
- ISBN 13
- 9780300223880
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- Sex, historical study, domestic life, culture
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