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Eric Allina is associate professor of history at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on labor and the state in colonial Africa, particularly in Mozambique. Published work includes articles in the Journal of Southern African Studies, the Journal of Social History, and History in Africa, as well as a book, Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique (Virginia, 2012). His ongoing research examines colonialism, labor, and slavery, and the history of socialist-era migration of Mozambican workers to East Germany.

Paul Betts is professor of European history at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He is the author of The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (Berkeley, 2004) and has co-edited four books on German history, including (with Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann) Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany (Berghahn, 2008), and (with Katherine Pence) Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics (Michigan, 2008). His most recent book, Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (Oxford, 2010), was awarded the Fraenkel Prize by the Wiener Library, London, in 2010. He was joint editor of the journal German History from 2004 to 2009.

Roland Burke is the author of Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (Pennsylvania, 2010). He is a lecturer in world history at La Trobe University and an Australian Research Council fellow. His current research project is a history of the arguments made against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

Frederick Cooper is professor of history at New York University and a specialist in the history of Africa, colonization, decolonization, and empire more generally. He is the author of a trilogy of books on labor and society in East Africa and more recently of Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (Cambridge, 1996); Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present (Cambridge, 2002); and Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (California, 2005). He is also coauthor, with Jane Burbank, of Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, 2010). He is currently writing about citizenship in France and French Africa between 1945 and 1960.

Marco Duranti is lecturer in history at the University of Sydney. His work on twentieth-century international and transnational politics has appeared in the Journal of Contemporary History and Journal of Genocide Research. He is currently writing a political history of European human rights law for Oxford University Press. [End Page 493]

Matthew Hilton is professor of social history at the University of Birmingham. His books include Smoking in British Popular Culture (Manchester, 2000); Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2003); Prosperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization (Cornell, 2009); and, with Jean-François Mouhot, Nicholas Crowson, and James McKay, A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945 (Palgrave, 2012); as well as The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain (Oxford, forthcoming 2013).

Sandrine Kott is professor of contemporary European history at the University of Geneva. She has published many books, including one on the history of social welfare in France and Germany since the end of the nineteenth century, L'État social allemand: Représentations et pratiques (Belin, 1995); and one on the social relations of real socialism, in particular in the German Democratic Republic, Le communisme au quotidien: Les entreprises d'Etat dans la société est-allemande (1949-1989) (Belin, 2001). She has developed the transnational and global dimensions of each of her fields of expertise in her utilization of the archives and resources of international organizations, particularly the International Labour Organization, as demonstrated in her new collection (co-edited with Joëlle Droux), Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and Beyond (Palgrave, 2012).

Katherine Lebow is a visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna. Her first book, Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-1956, is forthcoming in 2013 from Cornell University Press. She is currently writing a book called The Nation Writes: Polish Everyman Autobiography from the Great Depression...

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