List of Contributors

Eugene N. Anderson is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967.

Peter Fibiger Bang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen. His work has concentrated on (re)contextualizing the Roman Empire in world history, often in collabo­ration with his two co-editors, and tackles a wide range of topics, from the economy to state­formation and power. A mainstay has been the attempt to explore comparisons with other pre-colonial empires such as the Mughals, the Ottomans, and the Chinese. Among his books are The Roman Bazaar (Cambridge 2008); with C. A. Bayly, Tributary Empires in Global History (Palgrave 2011); with D. Kolodziejczyk, Universal Empire (Cambridge 2012); with W Scheidel, The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Oxford 2013). Irregulare Aliquod Corpus? Comparison, World History and the Historical Sociology of the Roman Empire (Copenhagen 2014) offers a theoretical and methodological manifesto.

C. A. Bayly was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, (Cambridge), Fellow of the British Academy and Trustee of the British Museum. He used his basis in late Mughal and Colonial Indian his­tory to rethink the character of imperial and global history. Characteristic of his writing was an unmatched capacity to mobilize his wide-ranging interests to identify links between seemingly contradictory or unrelated phenomena and a keen sense of the agency of subject communities.

James Beattie is an environmental and world historian whose work focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, mostly over the last 200 years. His 12 books and 60 articles and chapters explore cross- cultural exchanges occasioned by British imperialism, and the nexus between environment, gardens, health, and art. He is also founding editor of the interdisciplinary, refereed journal International Review of Environmental History, and co-edits the book series Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. He is Associate Professor, The Centre for Science in Society, Victoria University of Wellington and Senior Research Associate, Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg.

Amira K. Bennison is Professor in the History and Culture of the Maghrib at the University of Cambridge. Her work explores patterns of political legitimation in the medieval to early modern Maghrib from a variety of perspectives, including jihad ideology and urbanism. Her books include Jihad and its Interpretations in Pre-Colonial Morocco (RoutledgeCurzon, 2002), The Great Caliphs (I. B. Tauris, 2009) and The Almoravid and Almohad Empires (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Jane Burbank is Collegiate Professor and Professor of History and Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. She is the author of Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922; Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917; and, with Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. She co-edited two studies of Russian empire: Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire, and Russian Empire: Space, People, Power 1700-1930.

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems (with 'Thomas D. Hall); The Wintu and Their Neighbors (with Kelly Mann); and The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism (with Terry Boswell). He is the founder and former editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research. Chase-Dunn is currently doing research on transnational social movements. He also studies the rise and fall of settlements and polities since the Stone Age and global state formation.

Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (2005); Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (with Jane Burbank, 2010); Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 (2014); Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State (2014); and Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives (2018).

John Haldon is Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History at Princeton University, Emeritus. His research focuses on the history of the medieval Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, in particular in the period from the seventh to the twelfth centuries; on state systems and structures across the European and Islamic worlds from late ancient to early modern times; on the impact of environmental stress on societal resilience in pre- modern social systems; and on the production, distribution, and consumption of resources in the late ancient and medieval world. He is Executive Director of the Environmental History Lab in the Medieval Studies Program, Director ofthe Princeton Climate Change and History Research Initiative (https://cchri.princeton.

John A. Hall is the James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of many books, including recently Ernest Gellner (2010); The World of States (with John L. Campbell, 2015); and The Paradox of Vulnerability (with John L. Campbell, 2017). He is currently writing a book on Empires, Nations and States.

Cecily J. Hilsdale, Associate Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture at McGill University in Montreal, specializes in the arts of Byzantium and the wider Mediterranean world. Her publications, including her book Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline (Cambridge, 2014), focus on the circulation of Byzantine luxury items as diplomatic gifts, as well as the related dissemination of Eastern styles, techniques, iconographies, and ideologies of imperium.

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. His main research interest is to theorize the cultural and political dimensions of human­environmental relations in different societies in the past and present. His books include The Power ofthe Machine (AltaMira, 2001), Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange (Routledge, 2011), Global Magic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has also co-edited several collections at the interface of anthropology, environmental history, political ecology, and ecological economics.

Laura Hostetler is Professor of History and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on ethnography and cartography as tools of empire building in eighteenth-century China; Sino-Western cultural exchange; and global early modernity. She is currently working on a translation of The Qing Illustrations of Tributary Peoples together with Professor Wu Xuemei.

Caroline Humfress is Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews.

Dmytro Khutkyy is a public sociologist, practicing academic research at the Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California at Riverside, USA; applied research at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Italy; and civic activism at Reanimation Package of Reforms and the Coalition for the Advance of e-Democracy, Ukraine. His research focus is digital democracy, innovative governance, and social change.

Javed Majeed is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King's College London. He is the author of a number of books and articles on modern South Asia, including Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s the History of British India and Orientalism (1992); Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity. Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal (2007); and Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism (2009). He is also the editor, with Christopher Shackle, of Hali’s Musaddas: The Flow and Ebb of Islam (1997); and with Isabel Hofmeyr, of India and South Africa (2016). His two-volume study of G. A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India was published by Routledge in 2018.

Ian Morris is Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Stanford University. He works on long- term global history. He is the author of Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (2010); The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations (2013); and Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolved (2015).

Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. The author or (co-)editor of 19 other books, he has worked on premodern social and economic history, historical demog­raphy, and the comparative world history of labor, state formation, and inequality.

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London. He has written extensively about colonialism and the classical tradition. He is the author of The Classics and Colonial India (Oxford, 2013) and a co-author of Postclassicisms (Chicago, 2019). He is currently writing a book about colonial/postcolonial studies and the ancient world.

Kim A. Wagner is Professor of Global and Imperial History at Queen Mary, University of London. His research focuses on knowledge and resistance in British India, and on colonial vio­lence and warfare more generally in nineteenth- and twentieth-century global history. Wagner's most recent publications include The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857 (Hurst/OUP US/Penguin India, 2017), and Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre (Yale/Penguin India, 2019).