Table of Contents

I. Gender, Colonialism, and Conquest in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 1. Hemispheres Collide: The Spanish Conquest and Colonization of Mexico: Hernán Cortes (1485-1547) and Malintzin or Dona Marina (1505-ca.1529) 2. The Ottoman Empire: Hurrem Sultan (d. 1558) and Ibrahim Pasha (d. 1535) 3. Building the Persian Islamic Legacy in INdia: Jahangir (1569-1627) and Nur Jahan (ca. 1576-1645) 4. The Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope: Autshumato (Harry) (ca. 1611-1673) and Krotoa (Eva) (ca. 1642-1674) II. Experiments in Revolutionary Change and Resistance (Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries) 5. Human Rights and Eighteenth-Century Revolutionary Thought: Olaudah Equiano (ca.1745-ca.1797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) 6. Transforming Japan: Matsuo Taseko (1811-1894) and Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909) 7. Zanzibar and the Swahili Coast: Salme bint Said (Emily Ruete, 1840-1890) and Her Brothers, the Sultans of Zanzibar (r. 1856-1893) 8. Revolutionary Lives: Vladimir Ilyich (Ulyanov) Lenin (1870-1924) and Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) III. Mass Politics of the Left and Right 9. Revolutions in Early-Twentieth-Century China: Qiu Jin (1875-1907) and Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) 10. Anti-imperialist Nationalism: Sa'ad Zaghlul (ca. 1857-1927) and Huda Sha'rawi (1879-1947) 11. "The Savior" and "the Conscience" of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940: Juana Belen Gutierrez de Mendoza (1875-1942) and Lázaro Cárdenas (1895-1970) 12. Fascism Between the Wars: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) and Margherita Grassini Sarfatti (1880-1961) IV. Writing and Performing Dissent in a Global Community 13. United States and Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) and Frances FitzGerald (b. 1940) 14. The "Dirty War": Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and General Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo (b. 1925) 15. Decolonization and Independence in Senegal: Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2002) and Miriama Bá (1929-1981) 16. A Culture War Within Islam? Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) and Taslima Nasrin (b. 1962)