Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Maps ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I
7. I. Life and Energy 27
8. II. Conquest, Rulership, and the State 63
9. III. Gender Systems: The Exotic Asian and Other Fallacies 93
10. PART II
11. IV. Relating the Past: Writing (and Rewriting) History 127
12. V. Sorting Out Babel: Literature and Its Changing Languages 165
13. PART III
14. VI. Big Science: Classicism and Conquest 199
15. VII. Pilgrims in Search of Religion 232
16. VIII. Art and Vision. Varieties of World Making 265
17. Afterword. The Act of Comparing (Both Sides, Now) 310
18. Chronology 343
19. Chinese and Indian Terms 345
20. Contributors 347
21. Index 349