The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--From Diderot to Bo DiddleyReference World History "Consistently informative, lively, and accurate . . . a pathbreaking achievement." The New York Times Book Review s the world's axes of population, power, and commerce shift from North to South and from West to East, the old Eurocentric model of culture is giving way to a new global paradigm. This dictionary, which has been compiled by two of our most esteemed scholars, is the first work of its kind to devote equal emphasis to