In the years since publication of the first edition of this book, the field of HAS has exploded.
There are now more courses offered at more colleges and universities than ever before …

From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the
world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical …

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early
nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than …

This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously
unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf—one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's …

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian
Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that …

The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and
the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy …

Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from
time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo—a tale replete with the extravagant …

3 Introduction circumnavigation. By 1565, Spain had conquered the Aztec and Inca empires
and founded vast colonies on both sides of the Pacific—in Mexico, Peru, and the …

From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential
features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging …

How did efforts to control wild animals affect colonization? Winner of the CHOICE
Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL From the time Europeans first came to the …