notes on the contributors
alison bashford is Research Professor in History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Previously she was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial History, University of Cambridge. Most recently, she is the author of The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus (Princeton University Press, 2016, with Joyce E. Chaplin) and a coeditor of Oceanic Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2017). houchang esfandiar chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. He is the author of Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism (Cornell University Press, 1990) and editor or coeditor of a dozen books, most recently Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters between the Irish and the Irani ans (Ilex Foundation, 2015). sabine dabringhaus is Professor of Chinese History at Albert-Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. She is the author of Territorialer Nationalismus in China: Historisch-geographisches Denken 1900–1949 (Böhlau Verlag, 2006), Geschichte Chinas im 20. Jahrhundert (C. H. Beck Verlag, 2009) and Geschichte Chinas 1279–1949 (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015). christof dejung is Professor of Modern History at the University of Bern. He is the author of Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World: Spinning the Web of the Global Market (Routledge, 2018) and a coeditor of Foundations of World-Wide Economic Integration: Power, Institutions and Global Markets, 1850–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). richard drayton is the Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London. He is the author of Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the “Improvement” of the World (Yale University Press, 2000) and
xiii
125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 13 9/9/19 2:56 PM xiv notes on the contributors
Whose Constitution? Law, Justice and History in the Caribbean (Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago, 2016). marcus gräser is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is the author of “World History in a Nation-State: The Transnational Disposition in Historical Writing in the United States,” Journal of American History (2009) and a coeditor of The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). emma hunter is Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonisation (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and a coeditor of African Print Cultures: Newspapers and their Publics in the Twentieth Century (Michigan University Press, 2016). janet hunter is Professor Emerita of Economic History at the London School of Economics and a coeditor of the Journal of Japanese Studies. She is the author of “Deficient in Commercial Morality”? Japan in Global Debates on Business Ethics in the Late Nineteenth—Early Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2016) and (with K. Ogasawara) “Price Shocks in Regional Markets: Japan’s Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923,” Economic History Review (2018). kris manjapra is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. He is the author ofAge of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire (Harvard University Press, 2014) and a coeditor of Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Ideas (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2010). adam mestyan is Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Princeton University Press, 2017). His most recent publication is a manuscript edition of Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo: Mustafa Salama al-Naggari’s The Garden of Ismail’s Praise (Cairo: Ifao, 2019). david motadel is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Islam and Nazi Germany’s War (Harvard University Press, 2014), which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize, and the editor of Islam and the European Empires
125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 14 9/9/19 2:56 PM notes on the contributors xv
(Oxford University Press, 2014). In 2018, he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History.
jürgen osterhammel, until his retirement in 2018 Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study (FRIAS). His publications in English include The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2014), Decolonization: A Short History (coauthored with Jan C. Jansen, Princeton University Press, 2017), and Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia (Princeton University Press, 2018).
david s. parker is Associate Professor of History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is author of The Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900–1950 (Penn State University Press, 1998), a coeditor of Latin America’s Middle Class: Unsettled Debates and New Histories (Lexington Books, 2013), and a contributor to López and Weinstein, eds., The Making of the Middle Class, Toward a Transnational History (Duke University Press, 2012).
utsa ray is Assistant Professor in History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is the author of Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and has published in Modern Asian Studies, South Asian History & Culture, Indian Economic and Social History Review, and History Compass. She is also part of the editorial collective of the international journal on food studies, Gastronomica.
padraic x. scanlan is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2017), which received the 2018 James A. Rawley Prize from the American Historical Association and the 2018 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical Association.
alison k. smith is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2014) and articles including “A Microhistory of the Global Empire of Cotton: Ivanovo, the Russian Manchester,” Past & Present (2019).
125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 15 9/9/19 2:56 PM 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 16 9/9/19 2:56 PM the global bourgeoisie
125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 17 9/9/19 2:56 PM 125-80861_Dejung_GlobalBourgeoisie_6P.indd 18 9/9/19 2:56 PM