Peter A Coclanis Author & Editor

Francesca Bray is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies (1994), Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (1997), Technology and Society in Ming China, 1368–1644 (2000), and Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (2013). Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670–1920 (1989) and Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Globalization in South East Asia over la Longue Durée (2006), and the co-editor of Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta (with Mart A. Stewart, 2011). Edda L. Fields-Black is Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora (2008). Dagmar Schaefer is director of the Centre for Chinese Studies and Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Emperor's Silk Clothes: State-Run Silk Manufacturing in the Ming Period, 1368–1644 (1998) and The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in 17th-Century China (2011), and the co-author of Weaving an Economic Pattern in Ming Times, 1368–1644 (with Dieter Kuhn, 2002).