“…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. …”

“…They focus on democratisation and its failure in Russia, transformations of identity in Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, North and South America, and South-East Asia, the rise of militant and political Islam, and the eruption of China onto the world stage. …”

“…Since the eighteenth century, few schools of historical thought have exerted a more lasting impact than Marxism, and this impact extends far beyond the Western world within which it is most commonly analysed. …”

“…In the ancient conversation between Western philosophy and Christian theology, powerful contemporary voices are arguing for monologue rather than dialogue. …”

“…A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies. …”

“…Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy --he toured the capitals of Europe while still a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills-- he wrote as an adult some of the finest music in the entire European tradition. …”
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“…The Emotions closes the traditional Western gap where emotions are separated from rationality and thought: the heart versus mind debate. …”
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“…"A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as their citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These "displaced persons," or DPs-Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939-refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands. …”