* Introduction (Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University, and Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

* Early Imperial China and Its Knowledge of the Outside World (Michael Loewe, Cambridge University)

* Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China (John Henderson, Louisiana State University)"

* Perceptions of Real Space and Imagined Landscape in Early Western Han (Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu, Stanford University)

* Isolation Does Not Preclude Cosmopolitanism: Paradoxes in Classical (and later) Japanese History (Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley)

* Populating the Terrain: Indian Anthropologies and Their Spatial Dimension (Christopher Minkowski, Oxford University)

* Humans, Ancestors, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India (Kim Plofker, Union College)

* Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings (Piotr Michalowski, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

* The World and the Geography of Otherness in Ancient Egyptian Culture (Gerald Moers, University of Göttingen)

* On Earth As in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees (James M. Scott, Trinity Western University, Canada)

* 'I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea': Geography and Difference in Early Classical Greece (Susan G. Cole, State University New York, Buffalo)

* When Worlds Collide: The Europe-Asia Antithesis in Classical and Early Medieval Thought (James Romm, Bard College)

* The Roman World View: Beyond Recovery? (Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

* Strabo and the Geographical Narrative (Daniela Dueck, Bar Ilan University)

* The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the World (Emilie Savage-Smith, Oxford University)

* The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context (A.J. Silverstein, University of Oxford)

* New World Renaissance: Imperial and Local Geography in Mesoamerica before the Conquest (Barbara Mundy, Fordham University)

* Geography, Ethnography, and the World of the Sixteenth-Century Andes (Catherine Julien, Western Michigan University)

* The Mississippian Worldview (Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

* Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns (Natalia Lozovsky)

* Europeans plot the wider world, 1500-1750 (David Buisseret, Newbury Library)

"The basic premise, not to be dismissed, is that other
'ancient' or 'pre-modern' societies can inform us about the
Classical and Near Eastern progenitors of our own, if we are
prepared to look and learn." (Ancient West and East,
2014)
"In sum, the editors, and the publisher, are to be congratulated on
producing, a stimulating volume which provides expert guidance to
many aspects of the foreign country which is the past."
(Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science, 2011)

"The 20 papers originated in a workshop held at Brown University
in March 2006 and fully reflect the series' world focus and broad
definition of ancient societies." (CHOICE, July 2010)

"Inspirational in conception, seamless in execution, and
exemplary in cohesion, this book of twenty well-written essays on
the diversity of world views from antiquity to the sixteenth
century has an important message for modern 'one world'
globalism."

Catherine Delano-Smith, Institute of Historical Research,
University of London

Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, at Brown University. His numerous publications include The Discovery of Freedom (2004) and Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007, co-authored with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace). He is also the editor of Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (Blackwell, 2005), and War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2007), and co-editor of A Companion to Archaic Greece (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Richard J.A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of History and Classics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000), and co-editor of Space in the Roman World: Its Perception and Presentation (2004), as well as of Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (2008). His major study Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered will appear in 2010.

K. A. Raaflaub, Brown University, USA; R. J. A. Talbert, University of North Carolina, USA