“…The Russian state has colonised its own periphery on behalf of the Western core, but has never been able to overcome economic and normative dependency on the West. …”

“…These thinkers abstracted from western European experiences to universal norms. In the wake of their transformative contributions, states that did not fit the model appeared to be underdeveloped or deviant. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…56 -- Erika Brady --Part II Representing Others 73 -- 6. The Gaze of Western Humanism 77 -- James C. Faris -- 7. The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender 92 -- Catherine A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: On arts and artists -- Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America -- Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC -- The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD -- World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD -- A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The church militant : the twelfth century -- The church triumphant : the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation I : the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Traditions and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature : Holland, seventeenth century -- Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory II : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition : England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution : The nineteenth century -- In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century -- A story without end: The triumph of modernism ; Another turning of the tide ; The changing past…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gourlie and Leonard Engel -- "Landscape as moral destiny": mythic reinvention from Rowdy Yates to The stranger / Robert Smart -- Thoroughly modern Eastwood: male/female power relations in Tthe beguiled and Play misty for me / Brett Westbrook -- Clintus and Siegelini: "we've got a system. not much, but we're fond of it" / Mike Smrtic and Matt Wanat -- Rawhide to Pale rider: the maturation of Clint Eastwood / Edward Rielly -- Eastwood's treatment of the life of creativity and performance in Bronco Billy, Honkytonk man, White hunter black heart, and Bird / Dennis Rothermel -- "You can't hunt alone": White hunter black heart / Richard Hutson -- The end of history and America first: how the 1990s revitalized Clint Eastwood / Craig Rinne -- "A man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition": western noir and the tenderfoot's revenge in Unforgiven / Stanley Orr -- A good vintage or damaged goods? …”

“…Rather, it is a far-left violent extremist ideology and movement set on undermining Western governments and destroying the freedoms guaranteed in a liberal democracy. …”

“…As a film distributor and promoter, he brought modern Soviet films to western Europe. As a publicist and manager, he built up the most influential left-wing media empire in the Weimar Republic and initiated the pioneering use of photography and photo montage. …”

Sumario

“…Legal institutions as well as legal reasoning reassembled in the Corpus iuris civilis have been studied for nearly one thousand years in Western Europe and have been a constant point of reference. …”

“…In this account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. Identifying 500 western polymaths, Burke explores their wide-ranging successes and shows how their rise matched a rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World and the Scientific Revolution. …”

“…The doctrine of divine simplicity has long played a crucial role in Western Christianity's understanding of God. It claimed that by denying that God is composed of parts Christians are able to account for his absolute self-sufficiency and his ultimate sufficiency as the absolute Creator of the world. …”

“…Sobre su variedad temática dentro del amplio repertorio de la narrativa fantástica y de terror nos hablan los asuntos escogidos para algunos de sus relatos: “Cuervo”, un western inquietante y cruel, “El depósito de agua”, una historia angustiosa y kafkiana magistralmente ejecutada, “Música muerta”, un relato clásico de fantasmas narrado en primera persona y ambientado en un monasterio de Florencia, digno de los maestros de la ghost story, “El experimento de Armando Lombarte” –un relato de terror psicológico en la línea de “El extraño caso del señor Valdemar” o “El entierro prematuro”–, o “Resurgam” y “El sacerdote suicida”, dos historias de un tema tan querido al género como es el vampirismo, que se nutren de la tradición de clásicos como Bram Stoker o Sheridan Le Fanu…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…THE VALUE OF INSCRIPTIONS FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE ROMAN WORLD -- INSCRIPTIONS AND ROMAN PUBLIC LIFE -- The Roman Republic / Olli Salomies -- The Roman emperor and the imperial family / Frédéric Hurlet -- Senators and equites : prosopography / Christer Bruun -- Local elites in Italy and the western provinces / Henrik Mouritsen -- Local elites in the Greek east / Christof Schuler -- Government and administration / Christer Bruun -- Laws, lawmaking, and legal documents / Greg Rowe -- The Roman army / Michael A. …”

“…Italian opera set in California during the Gold Rush. It features such Western characters as a sheriff, a Wells Fargo agent, miners, and a bandit…”
Resumen
Libreto

“…In She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature, from antiquity to contemporary times. …”

“…History of Political Theory: An Introduction is an engaging introduction to the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory and their most important works. …”

“…At its core was the exploitation of wild rubber, then in increasing demand in Western markets. The population of the region was subjected to what was in effect slave labour - a regime of unbridled savagery which included imprisonment, whipping, bodily mutilations and killing. …”
Sumario

“…He was a simple carpenter, yet His words transformed the course of Western Civilization. This is the inspiring account of the greatest story ever told, the life of Jesus of Galilee. …”