Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present
Robert Tignor (Ph.D. Yale  University) is Professor Emeritus and the  Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University and the former  three-time chair of the history department. With Gyan Prakash, he introduced Princeton’s first  course in world history nearly twenty years ago. Professor Tignor has taught graduate and  undergraduate courses in African history and  world history and written extensively on the  history of twentieth century Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya. Besides his many research trips to Africa, Professor Tignor has taught at the University of  Ibadan in Nigeria and the University of Nairobi  in Kenya.Jeremy Adelman (D. Phil. Oxford  University) is currently the chair of the  history department at Princeton University and  the Walter S. Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture at Princeton University. He has written and edited five books, including  Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the  Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World  (1999), which won the best book prize in  Atlantic history from the American Historical  Association. Professor Adelman is the recent  recipient of a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation  Fellowship and the Frederick Burkhardt Award  from the American Council of Learned  Societies.Stephen Aron (Ph.D. University  of California, Berkeley) is Professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles and  Executive Director, Institute for the Study of  the American West, Autry National Center. A  specialist in frontier and western American  history, Aron is the author of How the West  Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from  Daniel Boone to Henry Clay and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State. He has also published  articles in a variety of books and journals,  including the American Historical  Review, the Pacific Historical  Review, and the Western Historical  Quarterly.Peter Brown (Ph.D. Oxford  University) is the Rollins Professor of History  at Princeton University. He previously taught at London University and the University of  California, Berkeley. He has written on the rise of Christianity and the end of the Roman empire.  His works include: Augustine of Hippo  (1967); The World of Late Antiquity  (1972); The Cult of the Saints (1981);  Body and Society (1988), The Rise  of Western Christendom (1995 and 2002);  Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman  Empire (2002). He is presently working on  issues of wealth and poverty in the late Roman  and early medieval Christian world.Benjamin Elman (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor of East Asian  Studies and History at Princeton University. He  is currently serving as the Director of the  Princeton Program in East Asian Studies. He  taught at the University of California, Los  Angeles for over 15 years. His teaching and  research fields include Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000-1900; the history of  science in China, 1600-1930; the history of  education in late imperial China; and  Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600-1850. He is the author of five books: From Philosophy to  Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of  Change in Late Imperial China (1984, 1990,  2001); Classicism, Politics, and Kinship:  The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China (1990); A  Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late  Imperial China (2000); On Their Own  Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (2005);  and A Cultural History of Modern Science in  China (2006). He is also the creator of  "Classical Historiography for Chinese History"  at http://www.princeton.edu/~classbib/, a  Web-based bibliography and teaching site  published since 1996 and continually revised.Stephen Kotkin (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of History  and teaches European and Asian history at  Princeton University, where he also serves as  director of Russian Studies. He is the author of Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse,  1970–2000 (2001) and Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995) and is a  coeditor of Mongolia in the Twentieth  Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan (1999).  His upcoming book is entitled Impaled  Horses: Labyrinths of the Ob River Basin,  which is a study of the Ob River valley over the last seven centuries. Future works include a  biography of Joseph Stalin entitled Stalin’s World. Professor Kotkin has also served  twice as a visiting professor in Japan.Xinru Liu (Ph.D. University of  Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of early  Indian history and world history at the College  of New Jersey. She is associated with the  Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of  Social Sciences. She is the author of  Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and  Religious Exchanges, AD 1-600 (1988);  Silk and Religion: an Exploration of  Material Life and the Thought of People, AD  600-1200 (1996); Connections across  Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and  Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads,  co-authored with Lynda Norene Shaffer (2007);  A Social History of Ancient India (1990 in Chinese). Professor Xinru Liu dedicates her  life to promote South Asian studies and world  history studies in both the United States and  the People's Republic of China.Suzanne Marchand (Ph.D.  University of Chicago) is associate professor of European and intellectual history at Louisiana  State University, Baton Rouge. Professor  Marchand also spent a number of years teaching  at Princeton University. She is the author of  Down from Olympus: Archaeology and  Philhellenism in Germany, 1750–1970 (1996)  and is currently writing a book on German  “orientalism.”Holly Pittman (Ph.D. Columbia  University) is Professor of Art History at the  University of Pennsylvania where she teaches art and archaeology of Mesopotamia and the Iranian  Plateau. She also serves as Curator in the Near  East Section of the University of Pennsylvania  Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.  Previously she served as a curator in the  Ancient Near Eastern Art Department of the  Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has written  extensively on the art and culture of the Bronze Age in the Middle East and has participated in  excavations in Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and  Iran where she currently works. Her research  investigates works of art as media through which patterns of thought, cultural development, as  well as historical interactions of ancient  cultures of the Near East are reconstructed.Gyan Prakash (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is professor of modern Indian history at Princeton University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Editorial Collective. He is the author of Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (1990), Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999) and Mumbai Fables (2010).  Professor Prakash edited After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (1995) and Noir Urbanisms (2010), codited The Space of the Modern City (2008) and Utopia/Dystopia (2010), and has written a number of articles on colonialism and history writing. He is currently working on a history of the city of Bombay. With Robert Tignor, he introduced the modern world history course at Princeton University.Brent Shaw (Ph.D. Cambridge                             University) is the  Andrew Fleming                West Professor            of Classics at  Princeton University where he is                  Director of the Program in the  Ancient World.                   He   was previously at the  University of Pennsylvania,                where                he chaired the Graduate Group in  Ancient  History. His principal areas of        specialization                   as a  Roman                      historian are in the  subjects of  Roman family history and demography,             sectarian                   violence  and                         conflict in Late  Antiquity, and in  the regional history of Africa as part of the                                Roman empire. He  has published                  Spartacus and                the Slaves  Wars (2001), edited the papers of                     Sir Moses Finley, Economy and Society in  Ancient Greece (1981),                  and published in a                   variety of            books and journals, including The                              Journal of Roman  Studies, The  American                   Historical                 Review, The Journal of  Early                               Christian  Studies, and Past &                       Present.Michael Tsin (Ph.D. Princeton)  is associate professor of history and  international studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He previously taught at  the University of Illinois at Chicago, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the  University of Florida. Professor Tsin's primary interests include the histories of modern China  and colonialism, and he is the author of  Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China:  Canton, 1900-1927 (paperback ed., 2003).  His current research explores the politics of  cultural translation with regard to the  refashioning of social and institutional  practices in China since the mid-nineteenth  century.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.