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The New Edition Retains Its Focus On The Enduring Questions With Which Scholars Grapple, The Issues About Which Consensus Has Started To Emerge, And The Tools Comparativists Use To Get At The Complex Problems In The Field. The Book's Outstanding Pedagogy Includes Chapter Opener Overviews, Bolded Key Terms And A Marginal Glossary, More Than 250 Tables And Figures, Numerous Photos And Maps, End Of Chapter Problem Sets, And New Works Cited And Country-specific Bibliographies.