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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…West Side story : 1957. Something's coming / Merrily we roll along : 1981. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The rebirth of monumental sculpture in the West: disappearance and rebirth -- Field, figure, and frame (i) -- Field, figure, and frame (ii) -- The programs of imagery (i): themes of action and themes of state -- The programs of imagery (ii): tradition, new reality, and nature -- The human figure -- Animal imagery in Romanesque sculpture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The origins of Christian pilgrimage -- Saints, travelers, and sacred spaces in the early medieval West -- Jerusalem and the holy places under Islamic rule -- Pilgrimage before and after the millennium -- Pilgrimage and holy war -- Pilgrimage and medieval society -- Pilgrimage and the wider world -- Pilgrimage and piety in the late Middle Ages…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Innovation in world civilization -- Medieval transformations -- Papal Revolution -- Military revolutions -- Discovery of the world -- Explosion of the printed word -- The Reformation -- Scientific revolutions -- Commercial revolutions -- Political revolutions -- Industrial Revolution -- Technological Revolution -- Crises of the West -- Social Revolutions -- Conclusions: A new type of society…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Not a clash but a confrontation between civilizations -- The West as the land of "collaborations"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Asia's World of Sugar -- Sugar Going West -- War and Slavery -- Science and Steam -- State and Industry -- Slavery Stays -- Crisis and Wonder Cane -- Global Sugar, National Identities -- American Sugar Kingdom -- Rising Protectionism -- The Proletariat -- Failed Decolonization -- Corporate Sugar -- Sweeter Than Nature…”