Cross-Cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness

1. Introduction
Michal Jan Rozbicki, George O. Ndege

Part I. Recovering Hidden Identities: Moriscos and Conversos

2. The Converso Phenomenon and the Issue of Spanish Identity
Kevin Ingram

3. Heretics, Christians, Jews? Jewish Converts and Inquisitors in the Early Modern World
Gretchen Starr-LeBeau

4. Disappearing Moriscos
William Childers

Part II. Missionaries as Cultural Brokers

5. Adapting Language to Culture: Translation Projects of the Jesuit Missions in Japan and China
William J. Farge

6. Jesuits in the U.S. Southwest during the nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Agents and Chroniclers of Cross-Cultural Ministry and History
Eduardo C. Fernández

7. The Task of Gender Role Differentiation in Foreign Missions: The Case of American Methodists in Rosario, Argentina, 1870–1880
Mark McMeley

Part III. Africa: Agency, Contestation, Acculturation

8. Africanizing Christianity: Cross-Cultural History and Conceptual Ways Forward
Paul Kollman

9. Conflict and Compromise: Western Medicine and Cultural Contestation in Colonial Kenya
George O. Ndege

Part IV. Cultural Adaptations

10. Genealogies, Geopolitics, and Governance: The Indigenization of the Native Nation and U.S. Colony of Hawai’i, 1874–1904
Christine Skwiot

11. Lessons in Whiteness: German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America
Kristen Anderson

12. Across the Alps: Italian Religious Culture in French Translation
Thomas Worcester

Part V. The Promises and Challenges of Cross-Cultural History

13. Cross-Cultural History: Toward an Interdisciplinary Theory
Michal Jan Rozbicki

Avainsanat: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Social History, Modern History