Part I: The Litany . . 3
Part II: Human welfare . . 45
Part III: Can human prosperity continue? . . 91
Part IV: Pollution: does it undercut human prosperity? . . 163
Part V: Tomorrow's problems . . 215
Part VI: The Real State of the World . . 327

Acknowledgements . . 9
Introduction . . 11

FAULKNER AND WOLFE
European Culture in Southern Literature: Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner . . 33
The French Faulkner: Visibility, Absence, and Sanctuary's "Lake of Ink' . . 51
Modernist Novellas: European Reflections on Thomas Wolfe's Short Novels . . 69

EUROPEAN RECEPTION AND PERSPECTIVES
Thomas Jefferson's Conflicting Views of Europe . . 91
Southern Literature in Northlight: 20th Century Southern Writers in Norwegian Translation: Reception, Reputation, Affinities . . 103
Antecedents and Trajectories of Two Twentieth-Century Writers from Georgia in Europe . . 115
Hemispheric Parallax: Zora Neale Hurston and the Triangulation of Race . . 137
How Bigger Mutated: Richard Wright, Boris Vian. and "The bloody paths through which we push logic into dread" . . 149
Richard Wright's Pagan Spain: Reading Spain through the American South . . 167

REIMAGINING THE SOUTH FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
A Study in Scarlett O'Hara? The South in the Writings of Arthur Conan Doyle . . 181
'The Formidable Question": James's Transatlantic View of the South . . 207
A Southern Sheriff's Revenge: Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon . . 221

WELTY AND PERCY
A Narrative Room of One's Own: Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom and European Fairy Tale . . 241
The Promiscuous Joy of Eudora Welty: Missing Bowen in Mississippi . . 257
Walker Percy and Eric Voegelin's Political Philosophy . . 277
City of Exiles: Unstable Narratives of New Orleans in George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days . . 293
Paris and New Orleans: The Transatlantic Cultural Legacy of Prostitution . . 309
France and the American South: Transatlantic Misreadings and Mythmaking . . 335

NINETEENTH-CENTURY RELATIONS
Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain's Modernities . . 349
Mark Twain Abroad . . 363
"Whatever the law permits": Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative . . 377

FAULKNER
"Les Amis Myriades et Anonymes a la France de Tout le Monde": Creolite and Empire, Difference and Indifference, in William
Faulkner's A Fable . . 397
War and Modernism in Faulkner's A Fable . . 409
William Faulkner, New Orleans, and Europe . . 419
CULTURAL AND CAPITAL EXCHANGE
Cavaliers and Capitalists: The Transatlantic South from Mercantilism to Mercedes . . 439
Old South/New Britain: Cotton, Capitalism, and Anglo-Southern Relations in the Civil War Era . . 455
European Influence on Pre-Civil War Southern Culture: The Case of South Carolina . . 473
The South in the Age of Nationalism . . 491

MOUNTAIN AND FOLK CULTURE
The Green, Green Hills of Home: Mining in the Fiction of Appalachia and Wales . . 503
Happily Ever After in the Marketplace: The Ballads of the Southern Mountains and the Escape from Old Europe . . 519
Transatlantic Folk Exchanges in 1959 - the Revival Year . . 533

POSTWAR FICTIONS
Slavery Old and New: Styron's Sophie's Choice . . 551
Black Girl in Paris: Shay Youngblood's Escape from "the last plantation" . . 563
Black South, Black Eurooe: William Demby . . 579

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Acknowledgements . . VI

1 Introduction . . 1
2 Learning history for understanding . . 14
3 History learning from the student perspective . . 30
4 Approaches to teaching history . . 50
5 Creating a context for learning . . 67
6 Strategies for active learning in the history classroom . . 87
7 Promoting independence in learning . . 110
8 Assessing for understanding . . 128
9 Developing understanding of teaching . . 149

References . . 172
Index . . 194

Vorwort . . 7
1 Einleitung . . 9
2 Vergleich der Prognose 1996 mit den Frfrebnissen der Volkszählung 2001 . .10
2.1 Einleitung . . 10
2.2 Die Abschätzung der Bevölkerungsentwicklung . . 10
2.3 Vergleich der Ergebnisse des Bildungsmodells . . 11
2.4 Vergleich der Entwicklung der Qualifikationsstruktur der Wohnbevölkerung und des Erwerbstätigenpotenzials . . 19
3 Beschreibung der Modellstruktur . . 34
3.1 Das Bevölkerungsmodell . . 34
3.2 Das Schulmodell . . 34
3.3 Der tertiäre Bildungsbereich . . 36
3.4 Das Qualifikationsstrukturmodell . . 42
4 Veränderungen der Bevölkerungsstruktur und deren Auswirkungen auf das Bildungssystem . . 47
4.1 Einleitung . . 47
4.2 Das Pflichtschulwesen . . 49
4.3 Der weiterführende Schulbereich . . 72
4.4 Die 12. bzw. 13. Schulstufe . . 109
4.5 Das tertiäre Bildungswesen  . . 119
5 Veränderungen der Qualifikationsstruktur der Wohnbevölkerung und der Erwerbstätigen . . 145
5.1 Einleitung . . 145
5.2 Die Qualifikationsstruktur der Wohnbevölkerung der Volkszählungsjahre 1971/81/91 und 2001 im Vergleich . . 145
5.3 Das Erwerbsverhalten nach höchster abgeschlossener Ausbildung im Vergleich . . 152
5.4 Abschätzung der Entwicklung der Qualifikationsstruktur Her österreichischen Wohnbevölkerung und des Arbeitskräfteangebots . . 162
5.5 Zusammenhänge zwischen erworbener Qualifikation Erwerbstätigkeit und Arbeitslosigkeit . . 172
6 Internationaler Vergleich . . 179
Zusammenfassung . . 185

Abkürzungs- und Zusammenfassungsverzeichnis . . 187
Grafiken- und Tabellenverzeichnis . . 204
Literaturverzeichnis . . 210
Statistische Materialien . . 212
Tabellenanhang . . 213

Introduction . . 13
Chapter 1 National Minorities' Protection in the Contemporary European State . . 19
Chapter 2 National Minorities' Protection - a Shared Responsibility? Home-State versus Kin-State . . 39
Chanter 3 The Objective of the Protection - the Achievement of Equality of Treatment and Chances between Minority and Majority . . 53
Chapter 4 The Instruments of Minorities' Protection - the Prevalent Role of Agreements . . 85
Chapter 5 Unilateral Measures Taken by the Kin-States as Domestic Legal Acts . . 113
Chapter 6 The Issue of an Administrative Document by the KinState for National Minorities . . 135
Chapter 7 Contemporary Special Measures alias Positive Discrimination fhe Relationship between the Home-State and the Kin-State . . 159
Chapter 8 Shaping New Standards of Minorities' Protection: the Guidelines of the Venice Commission and of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities . . 175
Chapter 9 The Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Hungary concerning the Law on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries and Issues of Bilateral Co-operation, Signed in Budapest on the 22nd of December 2001 . . 193
Chapter 10 The Role of Minorities' Protection in the Future Europe . . 217

The Authors . . 229
Annexes . . 231

Foreword . . V
Introduction . . 1
1. Sramanas and Brahmanas: Some aspects of the relation between Hindus, Buddhists and Jains . . 5
2. On common ('pan-Indian') divinities within Buddhism . . 19
3. Docetism in Mahayana Sutras . . 31
4. Karttikeya-Manjusri in the Manjusrimulakalpa . . 35
5. The worldly/mundane (laukika), and the matter of the popular and lay . . 37
6. The common Indian Ground or Substratum and the opposition worldly/mundane (laukika) : supramundane/transmundane (lokottard) . . 41
7. Symbiosis, confrontation, the subordination of the laukika through subjugation, and the issue of 'Buddhism vs. Hinduism': evidence from some Yogatantras . . 45
8. Further remarks on the structured laukika : lokottara opposition . . 57
9. The place and function of the mundane clan (laukikakuld) in Kriyatantra . . 63
10. The laukika : lokottara contrast in Mahayana Sutras and Sastras . . 69
11. An iconic depiction of the victory of Sakyamuni Buddha over a heterodox teacher mentioned in a Tibtan source . . 75
12. Subordination of the laukika level by peripheralization within a concentric mandala structure . . 77
13. Ritual, geographical, iconological and architectural collocation (juxtaposition), hierarchic stratification, and centrality as against peripheralization . . 79
14. Further issues in the laukika : lokottara contrastive opposition . . 83
15. Continuity, the substratum model in relation to the borrowing model, and the laukika : lokottara opposition as an 'emic' classification . . 87
16. Some 'etic' categories previously invoked by scholars . . 95
17. Paul Hacker's concept of 'inclusivism' . . 97
18. Harihariharivahanodbhava-Lokesvara: An example of Hacker's 'inclusivism'? . . 101
19. Borrowing and substratum models for religious syncretism and/or symbiosis . . 105
20. Vaisnava and Saiva elements in the Kalacakra . . 115
21. Kalkin in the Kalacakra . . 121
22. On syncretism in the borderlands of Northwestern India and the western Himalaya . . 127
23. The laukika : lokottara opposition in relation to the oppositions sacred : profane and spiritual: temporal . . 131
24. 'Emic' expressions relevant to the substratum model . . 135
25. Concluding remarks . . 143

Appendix I: Hinduistic elements in Tibetan Buddhist and Bon po sources, and the terms 'Buddhistic', 'Hinduistic', and 'Indic' . . 163
Appendix II: The noetic and the conventional . . 183

Indices
Names . . 189
Subjects . . 191
Selected book titles . . 194
Sanskrit key words . . 194
Pali key words . . 196
Tibetan key words . . 196
Japanese terms . . 197

Einleitung . . 5
Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen und Siglen . . 9
Genizat Austria. Zwischenbericht zum Projekt „Hebräische Handschriften und Fragmente in österreichischen Bibliotheken" . . 11
Überlegungen zu Relevanz und Zielsetzung des Projekts „Hebräische Handschriften und Fragmente in österreichischen Bibliotheken" aus judaistischer Sicht . . 33
A New Fragment of Megillat Ta'anit . . 49
Beobachtungen und offene Fragen zu einigen Besonderheiten der Torarollenfragmente . . 61

Register der zitierten Handschriften und Fragmente . . 89
Namenregister . . 91
Verzeichnis der Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter . . 95

Preface . . 11
Obituary of Jens Hacker . . 14
Greeting . . 17

The Definition of Minorities with Respect to Public International Law and Historic Aspects . . 47
Protection of Minorities and Ethnic Groups after World War I and after World War II A Comparison of the Legai Regimes with Specific Reference to the German Minority in Poland . . 61
Minorities between Segregation, Integration and Assimilation Thoughts upon the Devetopment of the Model of Cultural Autonomy . . 82
The Relationship between Protection of Minorities and the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination . . 99
Minority Protection and the Permanent Court of International Justice . . 124
Minorities and the OSCE. The Role of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities . . 136

I. Scrittura . . 7
II David Hume . . 35
III. Critica della ragione pura . . 82
IV. La musa restia . . 116
V. Golgotha . . 193

Note . . 272
Indice dei nomi . . 409