Human Nature in Rural Tuscany: An Early Modern History

by Gregory Hanlon

Book Overview

Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us. This fascinating study springs from the conviction that the building blocks of human life are universal: hierarchy and political participation; co-operation and competition, reproduction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140397764X
• ISBN13: 9781403977649
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"