Preface
by Stephen Richards Graubard
Introduction: Paths to Early Modernities? A Comparative View
by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Wolfgang Schluchter
Early Modernities: Varieties and Transitions
by Björn Wittrock
India in the Vernacular Millennium: Literary Culture and Polity, 1000–1500
by Sheldon Pollock
Hearing Voices: Vignettes of Early Modernity in South Asia, 1400–1750
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Territoriality and Collective Identity in Tokugawa Japan
by David L. Howell
Public Life in Authoritarian Japan
by Mary Elizabeth Berry
Boundaries of the Public Sphere in Ming and Qing China
by Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
Territorial Order and Collective Identity Tensions in Confucian Asia: China, Vietnam, Korea
by Alexander Woodside
Cosmopolitans, Patriots, Jacobins, and Romantics
by Bernhard Giesen
State and Public Sphere in Spain during the Ancient Regime
by Víctor Pérez-Díaz
