Introduction : cross-cultural encounters and hybrid culture
Power and unpredictability, conquistadors, and native peoples : conquest of the Americas
Europeans on the margin : missionaries and indigenous response in East Asia
Empires of difference : the Ottoman model of a multicultural state
Cultures in competition : Native American encounters with Europeans
From first contact to entanglement : Polynesian encounters with Euro-Americans
On the frontiers of central Asia : Russia, China and Steppe empires in Eurasia
The raj undone : British imperialism and the rise of Indian nationalism
The Japanese in East Asia : a non-western empire and nationalist reactions
Mapping Africa : European perceptions and African realities
Testing the limits of multiculturalism : immigration into Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Cross-cultural encounters in modern world history by Jon Thares Davidann. ISBN 9780205532667. Published by Pearson in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.