Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sages of the sea : turtles in the greater Caribbean -- Out to sea : labor and the Caymanian turtle fishery, 1880s-1950s -- A contact zone : mobility, commerce, and kinship in the western Caribbean, 1850s-1940s -- Limits at sea : state claims, territorial consolidation, and boundary disputes, 1880s-1950s -- Save the turtles : the rise of sea turtle conservationism, 1940s-1970s…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: custodian of the empire -- Cine-amnesia: how Russia forgot to go to the movies -- Nikita Mikhalkov: European but not Western? -- Kira Muratova: the zoological imperium -- Vadim Abdrashitov-Aleksandr Mindadze: a community of Somnambulants -- Aleksandr Sokurov: shuffling off the imperial coil -- Aleksei German: forensics in the dynastic capital -- Aleksei Balabanov: the metropole's death drive…”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…--The playboy of the western world, by J.M. Synge.--If, by Lord Dunsany.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Collective human rights -- 8. Western (ir)responsibility for human rights in the global South…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Film genre vs. genre film -- Creating the mental space -- Overview of film genres -- The uber genres: comedy and drama -- Romance, romantic comedy and buddy -- Speculative genres -- Horror -- Science fiction -- Fantasy -- Western -- Thriller -- Action and adventure -- Disaster and war -- Coming of age and fish out of water -- Balancing of film genres -- Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Academic, state, and public histories -- A selective narrative to 1650 -- The long eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- New states and the possibilities of lineage -- The historical dimension of manifest destiny -- Post-communism and the new history -- Western Europe -- Contesting the past, claiming the future -- Historiographies of the present -- Historiographies of the future -- A personal note -- Conclusions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Literary productions of Western Sufi movements; 2. Persian Sufism in the contemporary West: Reflections on the Ni'matu'llahi diaspora; 3. …”

“…Why did enduring traditions of economic and political liberty emerge in Western Europe and not elsewhere? Representative democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law are crucial for establishing a just and prosperous society, which we usually treat as the fruits of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, as Western European societies put the Dark Ages behind them. …”