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Human Nature in Rural Tuscany

An Early Modern History

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  • © 2007

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Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)

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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.

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'From my reading of the manuscript, I could go on and on about its strengths. I find no weaknesses.' - John A Marino

'This is one of the best manuscripts I have read for a long time and I would not want to change it in any way.' - John A Davis

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GREGORY HANLON teaches early modern European history at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is author of Early Modern Italy 1550 -1800: Three Seasons in European History (Palgrave, 2000)

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