Tabla de Contenidos: “…Greek inquiries into the heroic past / Claude Calame -- Mythography and Greek vase painting / Kathryn Topper -- Mythography and Roman wall painting / Eleanor Leach -- Retelling Greek myths on Roman sarcophagi / Zahra Newby -- Mythography and Christianity / Jennifer Nimmo Smith -- Byzantine mythography / Benjamin Garstad -- Mythography in the Latin West / Benjamin Garstad -- Mythography and the reception of classical mythology in the Renaissance, 1340-1600 / Jon Solomon…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exclusions and Traditions in Early Modern Western Europe / Self, Society, and Gender in Early Modern Russia and Eastern Europe / A New World Engendered: The Making of the Iberian Transatlantic Empires / Rescued from Obscurity: Contributions and Challenges in Writing the History of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa / Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750-1914 / Clash of Cultures: Gender and Colonialism in South and Southeast Asia / From Private to Public Patriarchy: Women, Labor and the State in East Asia, 1600-1919 / Gender in the Formation of European Power, 1750-1914 / Latin America and the Caribbean / North America from North of the 49[superscript th] Parallel / Frameworks of Gender: Feminism and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Asia / Women and Gender Roles in Africa Since 1918: Gender as a Determinant of Status / Continuities Amid Change: Gender Ideas and Arrangements in Twentieth-Century Russia and Eastern Europe / Engendering Reform and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean / Equality and Difference in the Twentieth-Century West: North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand…”

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“…The contributors to this edited book are all specialists in their respective fields; they hail from a variety of universities and business schools across the world, located in a wide range of countries in the East and in the West. The chapters, we believe, reflect a balance between the past and present, theory and practice, as well as the general and the particular.'…”
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“…"This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". …”
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“…This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, specimens, vaccines and iron lungs crossed over the Iron Curtain. …”

“…Née en France à la fin du XIXe siècle avec l’opérette, la comédie musicale a fait le bonheur du public anglo-saxon, au point d’incarner l’identité de certains quartiers de Londres (West End) et de New York (Broadway), tandis que le genre subissait un certain désamour auprès du public français. …”

“…Der Schriftentausch dient zur Zeit der deutschen Teilung als zuverlässiges Kanalsystem in Richtung "Ost" für die unzensierte, devisenfreie Einfuhr dringend benötigter Westliteratur und in Richtung "West" für Publikationen, die außerhalb des DDR-Buchhandels erscheinen. …”

“…Ausgehend von den Phänomenen Arbeitslosigkeit und Verantwortung wird das Arbeitsförderungsrecht der USA (West Virginia, Wisconsin, Kalifornien) und der BRD vergleichend untersucht. …”

“…the answer involves an investigation of the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It reconstructs regional constellations, intersections and relations in their national, transnational and global contexts. …”

“…Particular attention is paid to oft forgotten virus research in the former Dutch colonies in the East and West Indies and Africa…”

“…Only 25 years after the end of the Cold War, the Western-dominated global order is fading and our hopes that liberal democracy would spread and bring world peace are evaporating. While the West is increasingly preoccupied with its internal problems, threats to global peace have fundamentally changed: wars among nation-states and their alliances, once the dominant scourge of humankind, have almost disappeared and are replaced by a triple threat from intra-state armed conflicts, the failing of nation-states and the rise of belligerent non-state actors. …”

“…Public discourse in the West is derived from the Greek principles of civility, diplomacy, compromise, and negotiation. …”

“…The 1859 exploration of the Great Basin by army topographical engineer James Simpson opened up one of the West's most important transportation and communication corridors, a vital link between the Pacific Coast and the rest of the nation. …”