“…To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to describe the myriad ways in which the herb was processed into a palatable beverage. Along the way, he traces the shift in tea's status from exotic gift item from China to its complete nativization in Edo (1603-1868) art and literature and its eventual place on the table of every Japanese household. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Literary 'Masters' in the Literature of Thomas Lake Harris, Lawrence Oliphant, and Paschal Beverly Randolph / Arthur Versluis -- 9. American Transcendentalists' Interpretations of Sufism: Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn / John D. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Yengoyan -- Frazer, Leach, and Virgil: the popularity (and unpopularity) of The Golden Bough / Mary Beard ; Afterword / Mary Beard -- Cowries and conquest: toward a subalternate quality theory of money / Chris Gregory -- Cowries and conquest: prelude to a postscript / Chris Gregory -- Global violence and nationalizing wars in Eurasia and America: the geopolitics of war in the mid-nineteenth century / Michael Geyer and Charles Bright -- Postscript: on regional transformation, globalization, and war, with some afterthoughts on comparative and global history / Charles Bright and Michael Geyer -- Testing paradigms with comparative perspectives: British India and patterns of scientific and technology transfer in the age of European global hegemony / Michael Adas -- Race, ethnicity, species, and breed: totemism and horse-breed classification in America / John Borneman -- Postscript: reflections on totemism tomorrow: horse breeds and breeding in the United States and France / John Borneman -- The cities of Avignon and Worms as expressions of European community, 1945-1975 / Beverly Heckart -- Flowers and bones: approaches to the dead in Anglo-American and Italian cemeteries / Jack Goody and Cesare Poppi -- Flowers and bones: posthumous reflections / Cesare Poppi…”
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