Notes on the Contributors

Shigeru Akita is Associate Professor in the Department of Area Studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan, where he specializes in the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth.

H.V. Bowen is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Revenue and Reform: the Indian Problem in British Politics, 1757-1773 (1991), Elites, Enterprise, and the Making of the British Overseas Empire, 1688-1775 (1996) and War and British Society, 1688-1815 (1998). He is currently engaged in an economic and administrative history of the East India Company in Britain between 1750 and 1850.

P.J. Cain is Research Professor in History at the Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has published numerous articles on British imperial expansion and theories of imperialism in learned journals. He is the author of Economic Foundations of British Expansion Overseas, 1815-1914 (1980) and British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (with A.G. Hopkins) (2001). He has just completed a study of J.A. Hobson and the development of the theory of economic imperialism which will be published in 2002.

John Darwin is Fellow of Nuffield College and Beit Lecturer in the History of the British Commonwealth, Oxford University, UK. He is the author of Britain, Egypt and the Middle East: Imperial Policy in the Aftermath of War 1918-1922 (1981), Britain and Decolonization: the Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World (1988) and The End of the British Empire: the Historical Debate (1991).

A.G. Hopkins, formerly the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge University, is now the Walter Prescott Webb Professor of History at the University of Texas in Austin, USA. He has published widely in the field of African and imperial history, beginning with a pioneering synthesis, An Economic History of West Africa (1973), and continuing with the work that is the subject of the present volume of essays, British Imperialism, 1688-2000. This study, written with PJ. Cain and first published in two volumes in 1993, is currently available in a 2nd edition in one volume (2001). His most recent book is an edited collection entitled Globalization in World History (2002).

Naoto Kagotani is Associate Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan, where he specializes in Asian and Japanese economic history. He is the author of Ajia Kokusai Tsusho Chitujyo to Kindai Nihon [International Trade Order of Asia and Modern Japan] (2000) and 1930-nendai Ajia Kokusai-Chitujyo [International Order of Asia in the 1930s] (2001) (coed. with S. Akita). He is currently work­ing on merchants' networks in Asia and Japan 1931-55.

Yoichi Kibata is Professor at the Graduate School of Advanced Social and International Studies, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Shihai no Daisho: Eiteikoku no Houkai to 'Teikokuishiki' [Price of Imperial Rule: Imperial Mentality and the Break-up of the British Empire] (1987) and Teikoku no Tasogare: Reisen ka no Igirisu to Ajia [The Twilight of the Empire: British Policy towards Japan and Malaya 1947-1955] (1996), and the editor of The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000: the Political and Diplomatic Dimension, 2 vols. (2000). He is currently work­ing on decolonization, Anglo-American relations and international rela­tions in Asia in the 1950s and 1960s.

Gerold Krozewski is currently research fellow in the Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Niels P. Petersson is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany. His publications include Imperialismus und Modernisierung: Siam, China und die europäischen Mächte (2000), 'Ostasiens Jahrhundertwende. Unterwerfung und Erneuerung in west-ostlichen Sichtweisen', in Ute Frevert (ed.), Das Neue Jahrhundert. Europäische Zeitdiagnosen und Zukunftsentwürfe um 1900 (with Jürgen Osterhammel) (2000) and 'Konig Chulalongkorns Europareise 1897: Europäischer Imperialismus, symbolische Politik und monarchisch-bürokratische Modernisierung', Saeculum, 52-2 (2001). He is currently working on globalization, crime and international financial transactions.

Ian Phimister is Professor of International History at University of Sheffield, UK. He has published no less than 50 articles and chapters in books on African economic and social history. He is the author of Zimbabwe: an Economic and Social History (1988) and Keep on Knocking: a History of the Labour Movement in Zimbabwe (1997) (with Brian Raftopoulos). He is currently engaged in research on British overseas investment.

Kaoru Sugihara is Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan, where he specializes in modern Asian interna­tional economic history. He is the author of Ajia-kan Boeki no Keisei to Kozo [Patterns and Development of Intra-Asian Trade] (1996), The East Asian Path of Economic Development: a Long-term Perspective (2000) and 'Oceanic Trade and Global Development, 1500-1995', in Solvi Songer (ed.), Making Sense of Global History: the 19th International Congress of the Historical Sciences Oslo 2000 Commemorative Volume (2001). He is currently working on the rise of the Asia-Pacific economy 1945-2000, and its significance for global history.

Shunhong Zhang is Professor and Chairman of the Section of Modern History of Western Europe and North America, at the Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He is the editor and author of Da Ying De Wajie [The Collapse of the British Empire] (1997) and Ying Mei Xin Zhiminzhuyi [Anglo-American Neocolonialism] (with Meng Qinglong and Bi Jiankang) (1999). He is currently doing research on the British colonial system in the twentieth century.