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<div> This textbook provides an innovative introduction to the study of culture from an international perspective. It examines culture as a dynamic term with meanings that change through time, offering the first long-term analysis of the relationship between culture and nature. It discusses various theories of culture present in the disciplines of history, literature, art, and popular culture. Due to this breadth and coherence, the book can be flexibly and relevantly applied across many topics and could be used in a wide range of courses. <br /> </div>
<div> This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More?s widely influential book <i>Utopia</i>, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specifically its effects on political activists over the centuries. In addition to thorough studies of <i>Utopia</i> itself, and appraisals of More?s relationship with Erasmus, the book presents detailed studies of the effect of <i>Utopia</i> on early modern England and the Low Countries, as well as philosophical reflections on ideology and the utopian mind, and much more. <br /> </div>