“…Since the discovery and initial research of the settlement and its necropolis on the Macchiabate plateau by the Italian archaeologist Paola Zancani Montuoro, the site has played a key role in the discussion about the early processes of cultural exchange and appropriation in the western Mediterranean. The decisive factor here is the fact that around 720/10 BC, in about 10 km distance from Francavilla Marittima and thus within sight, the Greek colony Sybaris was founded. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- 7: Slavery in the Byzantine Empire; Youval Rotman -- 8: Slavery in Medieval Arabia; Magdalena Moorthy-Kloss -- 9: Slavery in the Black Sea Region; Hannah Barker -- 10: Slavery in the Western Mediterranean; Juliane Schiel -- 11: The Question of Slavery in the Inca State; Karoline Noack and Kerstin Nowack -- 12: Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery; Ruth Karras -- Part 3: Early Modern Societies (1500-1800 C.E.) -- 13: Slavery in the Mediterranean; Giulia Bonazza -- 14: Slavery in the Ottoman Empire; Hayri Gökşin Özkoray -- 15: Slavery in the Holy Roman Empire; Josef Köstlbauer -- 16: Slavery and Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire; Hans-Heinrich Nolte and Elena Smolarz -- 17: Slavery in Late Ming China; Claude Chevaleyre -- 18: Slavery in Chosŏn Korea; Sun Joo Kim -- 19: Slavery in the Indian Ocean World; Titas Chakraborty -- 20: Maritime Passages in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade; Pedro Machado -- 21: The Rise of Atlantic Slavery in the Americas; Michael Zeuske -- 22: Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean; Trevor Burnard -- 23: Injection: Atlantic Slavery and Commodity Chains; Klaus Weber -- Part 4: Modern Societies (1800-1900 C.E.) -- 24: The Second Slavery in the Americas; Michael Zeuske -- 25: Slavery in the US South; Damian A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…13 Breaking siloes and embracing the future: Western and Indigenous lenses in the education of landscape architects -- 14 From the concept of cultural landscape to its application in conservation policies and higher education in Portugal -- PART III Portuguese perspectives on theory and methods in Landscape Architecture. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A description of Afro-Peruvian Spanish grammar3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Peruvian Spanish varieties; 3.2.1 Andean highlands; 3.2.2 Lima/central coast; 3.2.3 Northern coast; 3.2.4 Southern coast / south-western Andean region; 3.2.5 Amazonian lowlands; 3.3 A phonetic account of Afro-Peruvian Spanish; 3.3.1 Vowels; 3.3.2 Consonants; 3.3.3 Intonation patterns; 3.4 Afro-Peruvian Spanish morpho-syntax; 3.4.1 Noun Phrase; 3.4.2 Verb Phrase; 3.4.3 Prepositional Phrase; 3.4.4 Phrase-level constructions; 3.5 Lexical items in Afro-Peruvian Spanish; 3.6 A final note on Afro-Peruvian Spanish grammar. 4. …”

“…is a question that has been and continues to be actively discussed throughout the Western world, leading several countries to change their laws in recent years. …”

“…The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean…”

“…Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the introduction of the Western concept of “religion” to Japan in the modern era, and the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism. …”

“…Specific solutions for recruiting and retaining great people in North Asia, South Asia, Australia, and New Zealand Seven new case studies, plus in-depth insight into IBM’s experience For every CxO, director, manager, HR leader, strategist, or consultant working with or for companies in Asia Right now, even as Western economies struggle, Asia is experiencing an unprecedented war for talent. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Farming -- Wage Labor -- Trade Apprenticeships -- The Urban Informal Sector and Self-Employment -- PATTERNS OF FEMALE EMPLOYMENT -- DISCUSSION -- FERTILITY AND TRAINING OUTSIDE SCHOOLING -- Women's Trade Apprenticeships -- Fostering and Home Training -- Variations on the Theme of Training and Fertility -- Secluded Female Industry -- Eastern Versus Western African Trade Apprenticeships -- Rice Farming -- Generational Exchanges: Training for Labor -- CONCLUSION -- 7 Consequences of Adolescent Sexuality and Childbearing for Mothers and Children -- HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF ADOLESCENT FERTILITY -- Maternal Health Complications -- Eclampsia -- Sepsis -- Obstructed and Prolonged Labor -- Hemorrhage -- Fistulas -- Abortion -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Health Consequences for Children -- SOCIOECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF ADOLESCENT FERTILITY -- Consequences for the Mother -- Effects on Fostering -- Effects on Social Mobility of Children -- Lifetime Consequences of Having No Acknowledged Father -- DISCUSSION -- 8 Conclusions -- FUTURE RESEARCH NEEDS -- Health -- Education and Training -- Marriage and Conjugal Relationships -- Men -- SUMMARY -- Appendix Difficulties in Analyzing Adolescent Fertility -- DEFINITION OF ADOLESCENT -- DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE -- THE DATA: DEFINITIONS AND DEFICIENCIES -- INTEGRATION OF DATA SOURCES -- DATING OF CHANGE -- References…”

“…With their belief in an identity encompassing both faith and modernity, Generation M are not only adapting to Western consumerism, but reclaiming it as their own."…”

“…The articles address several territories, that are geographically distant and widely different from each other – from the western Mediterranean to Central and South America – between the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions. …”

“…More broadly, the book shows how changes in attitudes toward sex and gender in China during the twentieth century have cast a new light on the process of becoming modern, while simultaneously challenging the universalizing assumptions of Western modernity…”

“…Other chapters examine places and cultures in Central Asia - property rights and state power in Kazakhstan, and animal markets in Kashgar, Western China. The buying and selling activities of ethnic groups within larger societies such as Latin Americans in the USA and Gabor Roma in Romania are highlighted. …”

“…Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and others as "metropolitan autoethnographies" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects. …”

“…Churata is an author who, from a place of enunciation removed from the shaping processes of Western modernity such as the Andean plateau, opens and will continue to open new interpretive paths from unprecedented perspectives. …”

“…Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the Western world. Therefore, its early diagnosis in particular, which is mainly based on serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA), has gained attention in several fields of research. …”

“…Within this, it highlights four key debates that encapsulate the complexities and paradoxes of cyber security politics from a Western perspective - how much political influence states can achieve via cyber operations and what context factors condition the (limited) strategic utility of such operations; the role of emerging digital technologies and how the dynamics of the tech innovation process reinforce the fragmentation of the governance space; how states attempt to uphold stability in cyberspace and, more generally, in their strategic relations; and how the shared responsibility of state, economy, and society for cyber security continues to be re-negotiated in an increasingly trans-sectoral and transnational governance space. …”

“…With this focus on practice-which geographically engages with Constantinople, China, Russia, western Europe, North America, southern Africa, and India-the volume's contributors demonstrate methodologically how world literature studies can bring the empirically specific detail to bear on global modes of analysis. …”

“…By presenting case studies from a wide range of countries situated on various European fringes, it differs from the narrower scope of publications which concentrate only on Western Europe. It is an ambitious project which speaks to a wide academic audience"--…”

“…The distinction between Jews and non-Jews has been a major theme of Western society for over two millennia. In the middle of the twentieth century, dire consequences were associated with being Jew ish. …”