Acknowledgments -- A Congratulatory Salutation to Our Honoree -- Introduction -- Passing the Torch, Kindling the Fires -- 1 -- Mentoring Matters -- 2 -- The Code of the Streets -- 3 -- The Last Stands of Jews in the Small Town Ghettos of German-Occupied Poland, 1941-1943 -- 4 -- State Breakdown Theory and Geopolitical Theory -- 5 -- Breaking the Iron Triangle of Sociological Causation -- 6 -- Deference versus Democracy in Traditional and Modern Bureaucracy -- 7 -- Democracy: Twenty-First-Century Horizons -- 8 -- Globalization, Migration, and Globalizing Cities -- 9 -- Defining National Culture -- 10 -- Assimilation and Anti-Semitism -- 11 -- Christianity in Korea and Japan -- 12 -- Mannheim, Mills, and Merton -- 13 -- Borders and Hybridity in Contemporary Literature and Social Theory -- 14 -- Combat Medicine and War Literature -- 15 -- Planting Empires, Producing Science -- Appendix A -- Complete List of Publications by Irving M. Zeitlin -- Appendix B -- Complete List of PhD Dissertations Supervised by Irving M. Zeitlin at the University of Toronto -- About the Contributors.