Chapter 1

Document 1.3: Excerpts from pp. 145–48 from Time Before Morning: Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines by Louis A. Allen. Copyright © 1975 by Louis A. Allen. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Document 1.4: Excerpts from pp. 215–19 from Time Before Morning: Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines by Louis A. Allen. Copyright © 1975 by Louis A. Allen. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Chapter 2

“Come then, Enkidu” from The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Benjamin R. Foster. Copyright © 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

“Now the scribe” from Ancient Egyptian Literature: The New Kingdom by Miriam Lichtheim. Reproduced with permission of University of California Press in the format Republish in a book via Copyright Clearance Center.

“He has come unto us” from Adolf Erman, The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, translated by Aylward M. Blackman. Copyright © 1927 Methuen. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK.

“In those days” from James B. Pritchard, editor, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament –– Third Edition with Supplement. © 1950, 1955, 1969 Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.

Chapter 8

“A tumbled confusion” from Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004). Copyright © 2004 by Mark Elvin. Used by permission of Yale University press.

“Ever since the Western horsemen” from Edward A. Schafer, The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’ang Exotics. Reproduced with permission of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS in the format Republish in a book via Copyright Clearance Center.

“From utter darkness” from Japanese Women Writers: A Biocritical Sourcebook, by HIEKO IRIE MULHERN. Reproduced with permission of GREENWOOD PRESS, in the format Republish in a book via Copyright Clearance Center.

Chapter 10

Document 10.5: From Popular Religion in Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context, by Karen Louise Jolly (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Copyright © 1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher, www.uncpress.unc.edu.

Chapter 11

Document 11.1: Excerpt from The Secret History of the Mongols: The Origins of Chingis Khan. An adaptation by Paul Kahn (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984). Copyright © 1984 by Paul Kahn. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Chapter 12

“Truly do we live on earth” from AZTEC THOUGHT AND CULTURE: A STUDY OF THE ANCIENT NAHUATL MIND by MIGUEL LEON PORTILLA. Reproduced with permission of UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS in the format Republish in a book via Copyright Clearance Center.

Chapter 13

Document 13.3: Memoirs, from Louis XIV by Robert Campbell, Pearson Education Limited. © Longman Group UK Limited 1993. Used by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK.

Document 13.4: The Incas of Pedro de Cieza de León by PEDRO DE CIEZA DE LEÓN. Reproduced with permission of UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS in the format Republish in a book via Copyright Clearance Center.

Chapter 15

“What I was paid” from Mirabai, translated by Robert Bly and Jane Hirschfield. Copyright © by Robert Bly and Jane Hirschfield. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.

Chapter 18

“Fine wine but no good friends” from Neil L. Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam, © 1995 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press. Used by permission of the University of California Press.

Chapter 19

Document 19.1: From Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano. Copyright © 2000 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher.

Chapter 20

Etty Hillesum material from Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. Used by permission of the Etty Hillesum Research Centre.

Document 20.1: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, translated by Ralph Manheim (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943). Published also by Hutchinson. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Random House Group Limited.

Document 20.2: Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Kokutai No Hongi: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan, translated by John Owen Gauntlett, and edited with an introduction by Robert King Hall, pp. 52, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 87, 89–90, 93, 94, 144–145, 178, 181–182, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1949 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1977 by Robert King Hall.

Chapter 22

Document 22.4a: From Afghan Women’s Writing Project: http://awwproject.org/2010/06/hijab-the-beauty-of-muslim-women/. Used by permission.

Document 22.4b: From Daily Mail, June 24, 2009. Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1195052/Why-I-British-Muslim-woman-want-burkha-banned-streets.html. Used by permission.