Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization

Notes on Contributors

notes on ContribUtors Jean batou is Professor of international history at the University of lausanne . he is a specialist in economic and social history focusing his research on globalization. he has authored many books and articles on uneven development , as well as on social and political movements seen from a comparative perspective. his last book, co-edited with s. Prezioso and a.-J. rapin is Tant pis si la lutte est cruelle. Volontaires internationaux contre Franco (Paris, 2008). Ivan t. beRend, distinguished Professor, department of history, UCla. he was professor of economic history at the budapest University of economics (1953–1985); President of the hungarian academy of sciences (1985–1990). President of the international Committee of historical sciences (1995–2000). he is a member of the british academy as well as five other european academies of sciences and has published twenty-six books and more than one hundred studies. among them are his trilogy on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Central and eastern europe; also The European Periphery and Industrialization, 1780–1914 (1984) and An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe (2006). RobeRt bRenneR is a Professor of history and the director of the Center for social theory and Comparative history at UCla. he is the keynote contributor to the Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe and author of Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London’s Overseas traders. 1550–1653. recent works include: The Boom and the Bubble: The US in World Economy and The Economics of Global Turbulence, as well as What’s Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for American, available online. danIel cHIRot is Job and Gertrud tamaki Professor of international studies at the University of Washington in seattle. his most recent book is Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton, 2006), co-authored with Clark McCauley. his other books have explored the subjects of tyranny, eastern europe, ethnic conflict, and social change. tHomas davId is assistant Professor at the institute of economic and social history, University of lausanne, and was a Visiting scholar at UCla, i4 globalization.indb 271 2011.01.05. 10:35 272 Notes on Contributors 1998–2000. he is a specialist on economic nationalism in eastern europe. he is now leading a research project, financed by the swiss national science Foundation, on the swiss elite during the twentieth century. his main publications include Le nationalisme économique en Europe de l’Est (1789–1939), to be published by droz (2008), and La Suisse et l’esclavage des Noirs, XVIIIe–XXe siècles (lausanne 2005), the latter of which he co-authored with b. etemad & J. schaufelbuehl (German version, limmat Verlag, 2005). eRIc J. Hobsbawm, born 1917, is Professor emeritus of economic and social history at the University of london and the Graduate Faculty, new school for social research. he has written a number of books on the history of labor and social movements, on general history since 1780, and on problems of the contemporary world, among them The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital, The Age of Empires, The Age of Extremes, Nations and Nationalism since 1780, and The Invention of Tradition (with t. ranger). at present he is President of birkbeck College, University of london, where he lives. JüRGen KocKa is a Professor of history at the Free University of berlin and at berlin social science research Centre (Wzb). he has published widely in the field of Modern history, eighteenth to twentieth century, and has also written on theoretical problems of history and the social sciences. his publications include: Facing Total War: German Society 1914–1918 (1984); Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany (1999), and Das lange 19. Jahrhundert (2002). JosePH l. love is interested in the history of economic ideas and policy in latin america and eastern europe, especially brazil and romania. he previously studied regionalism in brazil. he is the author of Rio Grande do Sul and Brazilian Regionalism, Sao Paulo in the Brazilian Federation, and Crafting the Third World: Theorizing Underdevelopment in Romania and Brazil, all with stanford University Press. he has also published some seventy scholarly articles and essays and co-edited several books. PeteR Hanns ReIll is distinguished Professor of history at UCla and director of UCla’s Center for seventeenth-and eighteenth-Century studies and of the William andrews Clark Memorial library. his field is the cultural and intellectual history of europe and he has...