“…It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. …”

“…It examines the role of the continuity of the diplomatic representations of the Baltic States and other manifestations of the Western non-recognition of the Soviet annexation. …”

“…1860–2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural space for Western travelers and their audiences over three historical eras. …”

“…Thus, the book argues that the evolving capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe exhibits strong symptoms of institutional ambiguity or a "patchwork" nature which makes it a distinct category from any of the co-existing models of Western European capitalism. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative political economy, Eastern European politics, post-communist studies and more broadly to researchers in the fields of economics, European politics and the wider social sciences. …”

“…In this open access book, Kofi Anani finds ways forward through the Blended Representation Principle (BRP), which stipulates that power be shared between leaders selected on the basis of Western-democratic ideals and leaders chosen on the basis of traditional African norms and conventions. …”

“…Although practitioners have been challenging the Western roots of research and participatory research for decades, their goals can be compromised by pluralities and contradictions in the field. …”

“…It is an update of A Review of Biological Control in Western and Southern Europe edited by Greathead (1976) and covers the period from 1897, when the beetle Rodolia cardinalis was introduced into Portugal against the invasive cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi, until the end of 2009. …”

“…By enlisting an affective aesthetics to represent English law as just, Blackstone created an evocative poetics of justice whose influence persists across the Western world. In doing so, he encouraged readers to feel as much as reason their way to justice. …”

“…Bloom insists on linking racial, sexual, and gendered discriminatory violence to wider environmental destruction, and she engages feminist, Black, indigenous, and non-western perspectives to address the exigencies of what we are experiencing now as the Anthropocene, or the new geological period characterized by ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations…”

“…Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where—using Western standards—none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers—Joseph Ho‘ona‘auao Kānepu‘u (1824–ca. 1885) and Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe (1852–1913)—to show how the rich intellectual history preserved in Hawaiian-language newspapers is key to understanding Native Hawaiian epistemology and ontology. …”

“…In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of the copula "to be," an ambiguity that has bedeviled Western philosophy from Parmenides to the analytic philosophers of today. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The law in the High and the Late Middle Ages: the learned ius commune and the vernacular laws. 12: Western canon law in the Central and Later Middle Ages / Peter Clarke -- 13: Structure of medieval Roman law: institutions, sources, and methods / Jan Hallebeek -- 14: Substance of medieval Roman law: the development of private law / Thomas Rüfner -- 15: Southern Europe (Italy, Iberian Peninsula, France) / Antonio Manuel Hespanha -- 16: Holy Roman Empire of the German nation / Mathias Schmoeckel -- 17: High- and Late-Medieval Scandinavia: codified vernacular law and learned legal influences / Mia Korpiola -- 18: Customary law and the influence of the ius commune in High- and Late-Medieval East Central Europe / Mia Korpiola -- 19: The beginnings of the English common law (to 1350) / Paul Brand -- 20: The Scottish common law: Origins and Development, ca.1124-ca.1500 / Andrew R C Simpson -- 21: Urban Law: The law of Saxony and Magdeburg / Heiner Lück -- 22: Extra-legal and legal conflict management among long-distance traders (1250-1650) / Albrecht Cordes & Philipp Höhn -- 23: Feudal law, Dirk Heirbaut – Part IV. …”

“…With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. …”

“…In many respects their hypotheses, results and conclusions can be extrapolated to Western historiography in the Early Modern period. …”

“…The publication of the Descriptio not only fed Western Europe's hunger for news about an important Christian victory in the ongoing war with the Turks, it also served to shape public perceptions of the Hospitallers. …”

“…These issues have a particular importance in ancient Greece and Rome, the first western societies in which state law and state institutions of dispute resolution visibly play a decisive role in ordinary social and economic relations. …”

“…Chronicling the period of Hispanic activity from the time of Columbus to Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, Kessell traces the three great swells of Hispanic exploration, encounter, and influence that rolled north from Mexico across the coasts and high deserts of the western borderlands. Throughout this sprawling historical landscape, Kessell treats grand themes through the lives of individuals. …”

“…First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at the interface between religion and politics has confounded such assumptions. …”

“…The style of the medieval period, which flows through the bloodstream of western culture, was vigorously re-established in post-Enlightenment England. …”

“…From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. …”