“…The emergence of the nations in the West promised homogenization, but instead the imagined national communities have everywhere become places of heterogeneity, and modern nation states have been haunted by the specter of minorities. …”

“…Covering a little-known combat operation that incredibly involved two neighboring North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies--Greece and Turkey--the 1974 battle known in Turkey as Operation Star Drop-4 and erroneously in the West as Operation Attila, took place on the perpetually restive island nation of Cyprus. …”

“…McDougall finds that Mao was in fact ahead of many of his critics in the West and his Chinese contemporaries in his discussion of literary issues. …”

“…And you will learn how to install and configure network services such as East/West and North/South routing capabilities, layer two switching, VRF, EVPN, multicast, and layer two bridging. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A case study of grave no. 100 / Karolina Rosińska-Balik -- Pictures in place : a case study from Korosko (Lower Nubia) / Lenka Suková -- Origin and early development of food producing cultures at Sai Island and Amara West, northern Sudan / Elena A.A. Garcea -- The late Neolithic at Qalaat Shanansite within Shendi Reach / Ahmed Hamid Nassr Hmad -- The ceramic assemblages from Sai Island (northern Sudan) : connecting technological choices to cultural traditions between the 6th and the 3rd millennium BC / Giulia D'Ercole -- Radiocarbon dates from Kadero revised / Marek Chłodnicki, Jacek Kabaciński -- Filling the gap between the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic / Noriyuki Shirai -- Combined Prehistoric Expedition Survey in the area of Fayum, Bahariya and Farafra Oases and Sinai / Jacek Kabaciński, Przemysław Bobrowski, Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, Maciej Jórdeczka, Halina Królik, Mirosław Masojć -- Sedentism and the advent of food production in and around Dakhleh Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt : a distinctively African phenomenon / Mary M.A. …”

“…The book contends that the Protestant ethic made possible and encouraged the development of capitalism in the West. Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism holds its own as one of the most signific…”

“…This volume explores the final phase of the West Roman Empire, particularly the changing interactions between the imperial authority and external 'barbarian' groups in the northwest frontiers of the empire during the fourth and fifth centuries. …”

“…Eine zentrale These lautet, dass die Fotografie das Tor zur visuellen Kultur des Westens öffnete…”

“…Focusing on the background and history of Al-Qaeda, developments in recent years, and how and where Al Qaeda is spreading, it examines the current state of the terrorist network and what the organization and individual cells are doing to recruit, plan, and carry out attacks against the West. The book also investigates intelligence and counterterror methods to garner information on Al Qaeda and steps that are being taken to counter the continuing threat.The author explores recent developments related to the Arab spring, and addresses how the Al-Qaeda network continues to expand especially in Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Mali, and Syria. …”

“…By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, this book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries. …”

“…It focuses on large aquatic fauna, especially manatees (but also sharks, sea turtles, seals, and others) as they were hunted, consumed, venerated, conceptualised, and recorded by different societies across the early colonial Americas and West Africa. Through a cross-cultural approach drawing on concepts and analytical methods from marine environmental history, the blue humanities and animal studies, this book addresses more-than-human systems where ecologies, geographies, cosmogonies, and cultures are an entangled web of interdependencies…”

“…In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi Valley during the nineteenth-century"--…”

“…While comparing the writings of a Chinese writer and an English one, Yao avoids a direct comparison between East and West that could further enforce binaries. Instead, she uses the comparison to develop an idea of cosmopolitanism that shows how the writers are in conversation with their own culture and with each other. …”