Cross-Cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness

This book illuminates our understanding of what happens when different cultures meet. Twelve cultural historians explore the mechanism and inner dynamic of such encounters, and demonstrate that while they often occur on the wave of global forces and influences, they only acquire meaning locally, where culture inherently resides.

MICHAL JAN ROZBICKI Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University, USA, and Director of the Center for Intercultural Studies. He has authored five books, including Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution (2011), and The Complete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy in Plantation America (1998).
GEORGE O. NDEGE Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University. His publications include Health, State, and Society in Kenya (2001), and Culture and Customs of Mozambique (2007).