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Empire in Asia<\/h2>\r\n

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About<\/h2>\r\n

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Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history of empire in the region.\u00a0Empire in Asia<\/em>\u00a0addresses the need for a thorough survey of the topic.
The two volumes of Empire in Asia offer a significant contribution to the theory and practice of empire when considered globally and comparatively and are essential reading for all students and scholars of global, imperial and Asian history.<\/p>\r\n

The two volumes of Empire in Asia offer a significant contribution to the theory and practice of empire when considered globally and comparatively and are essential reading for all students and scholars of global, imperial and Asian history.<\/p>\r\n

Volume I traces the evolution of a constellation of competing empires in Asia from the 13th through to the 18th centuries. It describes the history and characteristic features of imperial regimes in each major sub-region of Asia, from the Ottomans and Safavids in the West, Romanovs in the North, Mughals in the South, the Mongols & their successors in Inner Asia, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the East. Volume II covers the long 19th century, commonly seen in terms of ‘high imperialism’ and the global projection of Western power. It explores the dynamic, volatile and contested processes by which, by the early years of the 20th century, Asian states, space and peoples became deeply integrated into the wider dynamics of global reordering.<\/p>\r\n

Contributors<\/h2>\r\n

Brian P. Farrell<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nBrian P. Farrell<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of history at the National University of Singapore, where he has been teaching since 1993. His research and teaching interests focus on the military history of the British Empire, the Western military experience in Asia, and the modern history of Empire in Asia. He is the author of\u00a0The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940 \u2013 1942<\/em>\u00a0(2005) and\u00a0The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940-1943: Was There a Plan?<\/em>\u00a0(1998), and coauthor of\u00a0Between Two Oceans: A military History of Singapore from 1275 \u2013 1971<\/em> (1999; 2010), plus related edited books, chapters in books, and journal articles. Series editor for\u00a0Empire in Asia<\/em>, and coeditor for Volumes One and Two, he is currently working on a coauthored study of Great Powers and the geopolitical reordering of the Asia Pacific in the twentieth century.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Jack Fairey<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nJack Fairey<\/strong>‘s research work deals primarily with the history of the Mediterranean and Eastern Orthodox Christendom, with a particular interest in empires, religion and diplomacy. He was Ted & Elaine Athanassiades Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton in 2005-6, and has previously taught European, Ottoman and Mediterranean history at the National University of Singapore, and before that at Queens University and York University in Canada.\u00a0 His most recent publication,\u00a0The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom: The Crisis over the Eastern Church in the Era of the Crimean War\u00a0<\/em>(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), examines the role of the Orthodox Church as a locus for competing imperial agendas in the mid-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire.\u00a0 The monograph shows how competition between the British, Russian, French, Austrian and Ottoman governments over religious protectorates and clerical privileges contributed first to the outbreak of the Crimean War (1853\u201356) and then to secularizing reforms in the Ottoman Empire.\u00a0His other publications have dealt with the impact of religion and imperial ideologies on group identity in the Balkans, as well as with the intersections of British, French, Russian, Austrian, and Ottoman imperialism in the eastern Mediterranean.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Donna Brunero<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nDonna Brunero\u00a0<\/strong>is Senior Lecturer in History at the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on the intersections between maritime and imperial history, with a particular interest in the colonial port cities of Asia and the treaty ports of China. She has published and has forthcoming works relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Britons in China, maritime ethnography, and colonial representations of piracy in Asia. She is coeditor of Volume Two of\u00a0Empire in Asia<\/em>, the author of Britain’s\u00a0Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949<\/em>\u00a0(2006) and has a forthcoming edited volume on material culture and port cities. Her current research project is on the representations of maritime Asia in the 19th century via East India Company journals.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Anthony Disney<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nAnthony Disney<\/strong>, MA (Oxon.) PhD (Harvard) is primarily a historian of the Portuguese empire in maritime Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, about which he has written extensively. His works include\u00a0Twilight of the Pepper Empire. Portuguese Trade in Southwest India in the Early Seventeenth Century\u00a0<\/em>(1978; second edition 2010),\u00a0A\u00a0History of Portugal and of the Portuguese Empire. From Beginnings to 1807\u00a0<\/em>(two volumes, 2009),\u00a0The Portuguese in India and Other Studies, 1500-1700\u00a0<\/em>(2009) and numerous articles, papers and other shorter works. He has taught at Melbourne and La Trobe Universities in Australia and has been\u00a0a\u00a0scholar emeritus<\/em> at La Trobe since\u00a02010. Anthony has also been a member of the International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History since its foundation in 1978. Currently he is writing a biography of Dom Miguel de Noronha, fourth Count of Linhares, who was viceroy at\u00a0Goa between 1629 and 1635.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Bruce Lockhart<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nBruce Lockhart<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor in the History Department at National University of Singapore. He trained at Cornell University in Southeast Asian history, and his specialization includes both Thailand and Indochina. His primary interest has always been the monarchy, and he has written a monograph on\u00a0The End of the Vietnamese Monarchy<\/em>\u00a0(Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies, 1993). Currently he is working on a history of constitutional monarchy in Thailand. He has co-authored the third edition of the\u00a0Historical Dictionary of Vietnam<\/em>\u00a0in the Scarecrow Press series and co-edited\u00a0The Cham of Vietnam: History, Society and Art<\/em>\u00a0(NUS Press, 2011). He has also written several journal articles and book chapters on Vietnamese and Lao historiography. As a follow-up to his contribution to this volume, he hopes to look more deeply at French relations with Siam and Cambodia during the reign of King Mongkut (1851-68).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Florence Hodous<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nFlorence Hodous\u00a0<\/strong>is currently a post-doctoral scholar at Renmin University, Beijing, interested in the history of the Mongol empire and in particular its laws and its religions, as well as cross-cultural contacts between Yuan China and the Ilkhanate in Persia. From 2013 to 2016, post-doctoral scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, researching judges of the Mongol Empire. Publications include: \u201cA Judge at the Crossroads of Cultures: Shi Tianlin,\u201d (Asiatische Studien<\/em>, forthcoming), \u201cFaith and the Law: Religious Beliefs and the Death Penalty in the Ilkhanate\u201d (in Bruno De Nicola ed.,\u00a0The Mongols\u2019 Middle East<\/em>, BRILL, 2016), \u201cClash or compromise? Mongol and Muslim law in the Ilkhanate (1258-1335)\u201d (Studies on the Iranian World II<\/em>, Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2015), \u201cThe\u00a0quriltai<\/em>\u00a0as a legal institution in the Mongol empire,\u201d (Central Asiatic Journal 56, 2012\/2013). She completed her PhD \u201cToluid Dynamics of Asia: Flexibility, Legality and Identity within Toluid Institutions\u201d in 2013 from SOAS, University of London, under the direction of George Lane.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Frederik Vermote<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nFrederik Vermote<\/strong>\u00a0is an Assistant Professor Asian and World History at Fresno State University and a research fellow at the USF Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History. His research interests include Jesuit finances and travel between Europe and China during the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. His forthcoming and most recent publications include \u201cTravellers Lost and Redirected: Jesuit Networks and the Limits of European Exploration in Asia\u201d (Itinerario: The Journal of the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction); two book chapters on financing Jesuit missions in Brill and Oxford edited volumes; \u201cCash or Credit: Jesuit Money Flows during the Dawn of a Global World\u201d (Mercantilism and Account Keeping: Comparative Analysis of the Periphery-Core Structure and its Impacts on Indigenous Market Players); and an article titled “Dangers and Limitations of Jesuit Travel Throughout Eurasia During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” (The World History Connected). Vermote\u2019s book manuscript Moving Money and Missionaries in a Global World: The Jesuit Financial Networks between Europe and Asia is under contract with Brill.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Jinping Wang<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nJinping Wang\u00a0<\/strong>is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. She works on the sociocultural history of middle and late imperial China. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph\u00a0In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600<\/em>, which will be published by Harvard University Asia Center.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

John P. DiMoia<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nJohn P. DiMoia<\/strong>\u00a0was Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore NUS from 2008 to 2016, and is now affiliated as a researcher with Department III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), based in Berlin. He works on the history of (1) medical practices (biomedical, \u201ctraditional\u201d) and (2) the development of systems of infrastructure in Northeast Asia (eighteenth to twenty-first century), especially for energy and the two Koreas<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Murari Kumar Jha<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nMurari Kumar Jha<\/strong>\u00a0is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Nalanda University, India. Earlier, he worked as a post doctoral fellow at the Department of History, National University of Singapore. He received training in history at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His forthcoming monograph deals with the Ganga River, the Mughal empire\u2019s successes and failures along the river, and the interactions between the regional economy along the eastern tracks of the Ganga and the maritime global economy of the Bay of Bengal during 1500 \u2013 1800 CE.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Odd Arne Westad<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nOdd Arne Westad\u00a0<\/strong>is ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has won the Bancroft Prze, the Michael Harrington Award, and, for his book\u00a0The Global Cold War<\/em>, the Akira Iriye International History Book Award. His most recent major publications include\u00a0Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750<\/em>\u00a0(2012) and\u00a0The Cold War: A World History<\/em>\u00a0(2017).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Paul Werth<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nPaul Werth\u00a0<\/strong>is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, specializing in the history of the Russian Empire. He has held fellowships in Washington, North Carolina, Sapporo, and Munich, and for five years he was editor of the journal\u00a0Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.<\/em>\u00a0His previous work has focused primarily on problems of religious diversity and toleration in Tsarist Russia, and his major publications include\u00a0At the Margins of Orthodoxy:<\/em>\u00a0Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia’s Volga-Kama Region, 1827-1905\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2002);\u00a0The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia<\/em>\u00a0(2014); and, in Russian,\u00a0Orthodoxy, Unorthodoxy, Heterodoxy: Sketches on the Religious Diversity of the Russian Empire\u00a0<\/em>(Moscow, 2012). Having recently completed a term as head of his department, he is now researching a book on the significance of the seemingly obscure year 1837 for Russian history, while also contemplating future projects linking the histories of Russia and China.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Peter Borschberg<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nPeter Borschberg<\/strong>\u00a0teaches history at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in Europe-Asian interactions in the early-modern period, mainly with a geographic focus on Southeast Asia. His is the author of several studies including\u00a0The Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the Seventeen Century<\/em>\u00a0(2011), as well\u00a0as Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and Free Trade in the East Indies<\/em>\u00a0(2012).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Robert Bickers<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nRobert Bickers\u00a0<\/strong>is Professor of History at the University of Bristol, and works on issues at the intersection of modern Chinese history, and the history of colonialism and empire. His books include\u00a0Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai<\/em>\u00a0(2003),\u00a0The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire<\/em>\u00a0(2011), and\u00a0Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Foreign Domination<\/em>\u00a0(2017). He directs the \u201cHistorical Photographs of China\u201d digitization project (www.hpcbristol.net<\/a>) and currently leads a Hong Kong History Project. Britain\u2019s imperial presence in Asia was an intermittent feature of his family history from 1885 for over a hundred years.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Sher Banu Khan<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nSher Banu Khan <\/strong>is an Assistant Professor in the Malay Studies Department at the National University of Singapore. She received her advanced master’s degree from Leiden University and her Ph.D. from Queen Mary, University of London. Her research interest is the Malay world and Southeast Asia in general in the early modern period focusing on state-formation, cross-cultural encounters, gender studies and Islam. She has published in numerous journals and chapters in books amongst which are \u201cTies that Unbind: the Botched Aceh-VOC Alliance for the conquest of Melaka 1640 \u2013 1641\u201d(Indonesia and the Malay World<\/em>); \u201cWhat Happened to Syaiful Rijal?\u201d (Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde<\/em>); \u201cMen of Prowess and Women of Piety: The Rule of Sultanah Safiatuddin Syah of Aceh 1641 \u2013 1675\u201d (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies<\/em>); and \u201cThe Jewel Affair: The Sultanah, her Orangkaya and the Dutch Foreign Envoys\u201d (M. Feener, P. Daly and A. Reid, eds,\u00a0Mapping the Acehnese Past<\/em>). Her latest book is titled\u00a0Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641 \u2013 1699<\/em>\u00a0(2017).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Thomas David DuBois<\/a> Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"\"<\/td>\r\nThomas David DuBois\u00a0<\/strong>is a historian of modern China and transnational East Asia. He is the author of Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China (Hawaii 2005), and Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia (Cambridge 2012), and most recently, Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia, Manchuria 1900-1945 (Cambridge 2017), as well as about two dozen scholarly articles on the legal, commercial and religious history of Northeast Asia. His popular and scholarly has been published in Arabic, Chinese, and Russian translation. His current project on China\u2019s animal industries is conducted in conjunction with scholars at Hulunbuir University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

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