Preface 
by Stephen Richards Graubard
 
Introduction: Paths to Early Modernities? A Comparative View 
by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and Wolfgang Schluchter
 
Early Modernities: Varieties and Transitions 
by Björn Wittrock
 
India in the Vernacular Millennium: Literary Culture and Polity, 1000–1500 
by Sheldon Pollock
 
Hearing Voices: Vignettes of Early Modernity in South Asia, 1400–1750 
by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
 
Territoriality and Collective Identity in Tokugawa Japan 
by David L. Howell
 
Public Life in Authoritarian Japan 
by Mary Elizabeth Berry
 
Boundaries of the Public Sphere in Ming and Qing China 
by Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
 
Territorial Order and Collective Identity Tensions in Confucian Asia: China, Vietnam, Korea 
by Alexander Woodside
 
Cosmopolitans, Patriots, Jacobins, and Romantics 
by Bernhard Giesen
 
State and Public Sphere in Spain during the Ancient Regime
by VÃctor Pérez-DÃaz