Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Early Cultural Contacts Through the Classical Period -- Chapter 1. Egypt and the Middle East: The Contact with Early Greece -- Chapter 2. The Hellenistic-Indian Encounter -- Chapter 3. Buddhism and New Cultural Contacts in Asia -- Chapter 4. The Jewish Diaspora -- Chapter 5. The Spread of Christianity -- Part II. Postclassical and Early Modern Periods, 450-1750 CE -- Chapter 6. The Spread of Islam -- Chapter 7. Christianity and the Americas -- Chapter 8. The Spread of Science -- Chapter 9. The African Diaspora -- Part III. The Modern Centuries -- Chapter 10. The Spread of Nationalism -- Chapter 11. Imperialist Ideas About Women -- Chapter 12. The Development of International Art -- Chapter 13. The Spread of Marxism -- Chapter 14. International Consumer Culture -- Bibliography -- Index.