This book focuses on prevailing ideas connected to cultural and social diversity. The writers of these essays deploy a variety of crit-ical methods, which originate from social, cultural and literary theory, and analyse the relationship between historical and social forces and recurrent cultural beliefs and values. Contributors: Marino Tuzi, William Ansehin, Eva C. Karpinski, Osvaldo Croci, Robin Mathews, and Howard A Doughty.