PETER FIBIGER BANG Associate Professor in the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark KAREN BARKEY Professor of Sociology and History, Columbia University, USARUDI BATZELL Kellett Fellowship holder, Columbia University, USA, pursuing Mphils in Modern European History and Economic and Social History, Cambridge University, UKC.A. BAYLY Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, UKSTEPHEN BLAKE Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, USAFABRIZIO DE DONNO Lecturer in Italian Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKDAVID LUDDEN Professor of Political Economy and Globalization, New York University, USAW.G.(GARRY)RUNCIMAN Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UKGIOVANNI SALMERI Professor of Roman History, the University of Pisa, ItalyWALTER SCHEIDEL Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History, Stanford University, USABAKI TEZCAN Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, the University of California, Davis, USAMICHAL TYMOWSKI Professor of History, the University of Warsaw, Poland CHRIS WICKHAM Chichele Professor of Medieval History, All Souls College, Oxford, UK ANDRÉ WINK Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA