“…From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments include two or more political parties. …”

“…Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo Rasmussen brings the untold story of Scandinavian American immigrants to life by focusing on their lived community experience and positioning it within the larger context of western settler colonialism. Associating American citizenship with liberty and equality, Scandinavian immigrants openly opposed slavery and were among the most enthusiastic foreign-born supporters of the early Republican Party. …”

“…He dealt throughout with Western classical music, from the period approximately 1600-1900. …”

“…Paying close attention to how individuals speak about themselves and their feelings of acceptance or rejection, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there…”

“…The matchup has all the markings of an evil-twin narrative, pitting Rand, the muse of libertarian conservatism, against Nabokov, the trickster-genius of the Western canon. Their mid-century novels afford a rare opportunity to arbitrate, by proxy, American political grievances and resolve, in print, its electoral dysfunction. …”

“…Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. …”

“…From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. …”

“…A powerful moral analysis that shows what Western states would do if they really cared about the values they profess…”
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“…Investigating thirty countries in Western and Central-Eastern Europe over 150 years of electoral history, the author shows the existence of common alignments and parallel waves of electoral change across the continent. …”

“…"In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world. In this new book, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and a noted scholar of Eastern Christianity, introduces us to some aspects and personalities of the Orthodox Christian world, from the desert contemplatives of the fourth century to philosophers, novelists and activists of the modern era, that suggest where we might look for fresh light and warmth. …”

“…Asia's complexity has led to common misdiagnoses: Western thinking on Asia conflates the entire region with China, predicts imminent World War III around every corner, and regularly forecasts debt-driven collapse for the region's major economies. …”

“…Participants explored the relationships between modernization and identity, secularism and religion, traditional and Western ideas, and reform and external assistance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Global Forces in Asia (1870s-1910s); Western Imperialist Commercial Interests in Tibet…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…s return of Marduk to Babylon""; ""Religious projection: A Hellenistic instance""; ""Mani versus Mazdak: The prophet and his king in pre-Islamic Iran""; ""Religious transformations and socio-political change: A western eurocentric paradigm?""; ""Eastern Europe""; ""The intelligentsia between secular and religious culture""; ""Personal spiritual orientations and religiousness in (former) Soviet society""…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Legitimacies in Peril: Towards a Comparative History of Elites and State in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France and Western Europe -- Section II: Economic Power -- Chapter 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Facts and Figures on Colonial Domestics -- Manuals and Advice Literature -- Children's Literature -- Servants in Youth Literature -- Concluding Remarks -- IV Summer Dresses and Canned Food: European Women and Western Lifestyles -- Introduction -- European Women in the Colonial Community -- What to Wear? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Petersburg IT Professionals Business ideas and partners; Clients; Starting capital; Office space; Jobs; Advice and information; Services; 7 Social Mechanisms Governing the Informal Transactions between Russian IT Managers; Reciprocal expectations in Russian managers' transactions; Brokerage; The mixing of personal and professional spheres of life; 8 The Spirit of Russian IT Capitalism; The connexionist spirit of Western capitalism; The domestic spirit of Russian IT capitalism; 9 Conclusions; Appendix: List of Respondents -- Notes -- References -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Orientalism: The Subverting of Western Stereotypes of the East; V. The Location of Culture; VI. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Essence of Cross-domain Deterrence -- Part II. Non-Western Concepts of Deterrence -- Chapter 9. Deterrence à la Ruse: Its Uniqueness, Sources and Implications -- Chapter 10. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Interdependence and Ideological ControlThe Political Control of speca; 5 Discipline and Publish; According to a "Western Diplomat."; Brenda; "Editors Suck."; The Ray Bonner Effect; 6 The Source War; Her, Rigoberta Menchu; "The Blood Has to be Purged…”