List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword

Chapter 1. Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
The Big Picture: Society and Gender
Saikaku and His World
Barbur's “Youthful Follies”
Homosexuality in Renaissance Florence
Gender Channeling in the Americas
Male-Male Love from a Global Perspective
Female-Female Love and Sexuality
Love in a Mughal Harem?
The Inquisition of Benedetta Carlini
Two-Spirits among First Nations Americans
The Bigger Picture: Gender Channeling
No Simple Categories
Power and Class
Nonconformance
Gender and Globalization
Visible Communities

Chapter 2. Nations and Nationalism
The Big Picture: What Is a Nation?
Colonial Land Grab
Railways and Colonial Development
Missions and Names
War and Nationalism
Kenyatta and London
Looking Forward, Looking Back
War, Return, and Rebellion
The Bigger Picture: Nationalism and Its Challenges

Chapter 3. Technology and Science: The Example of Glass
The Big Picture: What Is Technology?
Lenses in Theory and Practice
Advances in Lens Technology
Leeuwenhoek's Observations
Leeuwenhoek and the Scientific Method
Lenses and Realism: Photography
Flat Glass: Light and Reflection
Flat Glass: The Success Story
The Bigger Picture: Evaluating New Technology

Chapter 4. Migration and the Immigrant Experience
The Big Picture: Peoples on the Move
Arrivals in a New Country
Global Mass Migration and Its Constraints
Years After Migration
Involuntary Mass Migration
The Bigger Picture: Migration in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 5. Slavery: Old and New
The Big Picture: Slavery's Long History
Witnesses, Memoirs, and Primary Sources
Plantation Slavery, from the Perspectives of Esteban and History
Factions, Beliefs, and Strategies for Survival
Esteban's Life as a Runaway
Abolition and Rebellion
The End of Slavery in Cuba
Cuba's Revolutions
The Bigger Picture: Modern Slavery
The Endurance of Slavery
The New Slavery
What Is to Be Done?

Chapter 6. Human Rights
The Big Picture: Defining Human Rights
From World War to Human Rights
Roosevelt in London
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Long Road to Passage
What Was Adopted
A Less Than Perfect Declaration
Evolution of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Bigger Picture: The Legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Chapter 7. Empire and Environment
The Big Picture: Human Activity and the Environment
Exploration and Conquest
The Tragic End of Tomé Pires
Advances in Botany and Medicine
Colonization and the Environment
Cotton Stresses in India
US Domination of Cotton Exports
"Improving" Indian Cotton
India Cotton Before the Colonizers
A Turning Point: The US Civil War
Tin Mining and the Environment in Malaya
Ancient Tin Mining
The Rush for Tin
European Intervention Escalates
The Bigger Picture: The Environmental Legacy of Colonialism
Costs and Benefits
Scientific Attitude
The Role of Technology
No New Industries

Afterword
Notes
Credits
Index