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OverviewIf Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A 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, epitomised 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Arthur Marwick (Professor of History, Open University)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Hambledon Continuum Edition: illustrated edition Dimensions: Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9781852854485ISBN 10: 1852854480 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 October 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsRefreshingly clear and immediately useful The Spectator, 20 November 2004 Author Information"Arthur John Brereton Marwick (29 February 1936 - 27 September 2006) was a professor in history. Born in Edinburgh, he was a graduate of Edinburgh University and Balliol College, Oxford. Marwick was appointed the first Professor of History at the Open University in 1969, after lecturing at Edinburgh for ten years. He held visiting professorships at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Stanford University, Rhodes College and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was a left-wing social and cultural historian but critical of Marxism and other approaches to history that he believed stressed the importance of metanarrative over archival research. He was also a critic of postmodernism, seeing it as a ""menace to serious historical study"". It was also the methodology of the postmodernists to which he was opposed, ""the techniques to deconstruction or discourse analysis have little value compared with the sophisticated methods historians have been developing over years""." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |