Cross-cultural encounters in modern world history [Texte imprimé] / Jonathan Davidann, Marc Jason Gilbert

Introduction : cross-cultural encounters and hybrid culture -- Power and unpredictability, conquistadors, and native peoples : conquest of the Americas -- Europeans on the margin : missionaries and indigenous response in East Asia -- Empires of difference : the Ottoman model of a multicultural state -- Cultures in competition : Native American encounters with Europeans -- From first contact to entanglement : Polynesian encounters with Euro-Americans -- On the frontiers of central Asia : Russia, China and Steppe empires in Eurasia -- The raj undone : British imperialism and the rise of Indian nationalism -- The Japanese in East Asia : a non-western empire and nationalist reactions -- Mapping Africa : European perceptions and African realities -- Testing the limits of multiculturalism : immigration into Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first century