The influential readings contained in this volume combine conceptual history - the history of words and languages - and global history, showing clearly how the

Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They challenge accep

In this study, Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in 19th- and 20th-century Bengal to show how the concept of 'culture' can

What is—and what was—“the world”? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and inexorable progress of globalization, concepts of “worl

Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture c