“…President Clinton and other western leaders had sent the planes to monitor the Bosnian war, which had killed almost 200,000 civilians. …”

“…The series will feature six books, five of which cover continental and regional groups including (Book 1) Asia and Australasia, (Book 2) Eastern Europe and Russia, (Book 3) Middle East and Africa, (Book 4) Latin America and Caribbean and (Book 5) Western Europe. The sixth book will have essays on new and revised historiographical and theoretical approaches. …”

“…The series features six books, five of which cover continental and regional groups including (Book 1) Asia and Australasia, (Book 2) Eastern Europe and Russia, (Book 3) Middle East and Africa, (Book 4) Latin America and Caribbean and (Book 5) Western Europe. The sixth book will have essays on new and revised historiographical and theoretical approaches. …”

“…The series features six books, five of which cover continental and regional groups including (Book 1) Asia and Australasia, (Book 2) Eastern Europe and Russia, (Book 3) Middle East and Africa, (Book 4) Latin America and Caribbean and (Book 5) Western Europe. The sixth book will have essays on new and revised historiographical and theoretical approaches. …”

“…The series features six books, five of which cover continental and regional groups including (Book 1) Asia and Australasia, (Book 2) Eastern Europe and Russia, (Book 3) Middle East and Africa, (Book 4) Latin America and Caribbean and (Book 5) Western Europe. The sixth book will have essays on new and revised historiographical and theoretical approaches. …”

“…But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions - the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail - are degenerating. …”

“…As Spaniards consolidated their hold over central Mexico they fanned out in several directions, first entering western Mexico - the future New Galicia - in 1524. …”

“…It focuses on the nature of mercantile activity in two parts of Spain: Cadiz in the south, and its trade with Spain's American empire; and Bilbao in the north, and its trade with western and northern Europe. In particular, it explores the 'processes' of trade, trading networks and communications, seeking to understand merchant behaviour, especially the choices made by individuals when conducting business - and specifically with whom they chose to deal. …”

“…"Augustine--for all of his influence on Western culture and politics--was hardly a liberal. …”

“…Now widely reviled, fascism became the dominant political force in Western Europe throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rodríguez -- Religiosity, power and aspects of social representation in the villancicos of the Portuguese Royal Chapel / Rui Cabral Lopes -- Music charms the senses : devotional music in the Triunfos festivos of San Ginés, Madrid, 1656 / Janet Hathaway -- A literary and typological study of the late 17th-century villancico / Alain Bègue -- Pastorelas and the pastoral tradition in 18th-century Spanish villancicos / Pilar Ramos López -- The noël à grand choeur of south-western France and the Iberian villancico : towards a comparison / Benoît Michele -- Music by Francisco de la Huerta for the nuns of Santa Ana de Ávila (1767-78) / María Gembero Ustárroz -- Historical and literary vestiges of the villancico in the early modern Philippines / David Irving -- The ethnic villancico and racial politics in 17th-century Mexico / Geoffrey Baker -- The popular, the sacred, the colonial and the local : the performance of identities in the villancicos from Sucre (Bolivia) / Bernardo Illari…”

“…"In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life. …”

“…Medievalists and Renaissance specialists contribute to this compelling volume examining how and why the classics of Greek and Latin culture were taught in various Western European curricula (including in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Italy) from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. …”

“…This collection of essays attempts for the first time to make justice of Uexküll's theoretical impact on Western culture. By highlighting his importance for philosophy, the book aims to contribute to the general interpretation of the relationship between biology and philosophy in the last century and explore the often neglected connection between continental philosophy and the sciences of life. …”

“…Its logic and limitations have shaped thought and affect from its inception until the present. Now its grip on Western consciousness is giving way to virtual technologies and networked media, which are reconfiguring human subjectivity just as the alphabet did centuries ago. …”

“…How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. …”

“…A Wedged Tale follows him as he chases eagles across Western Australia, meeting a variety of wild animals along the way. …”
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“…In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead placing individuals themselves at its core. …”

“…, Brian Leiter argues that the reasons have nothing to do with religion, and that Western democracies are wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protections. …”