Sven Beckert Editor & Author

Sven Beckert is Professor of American History at Harvard University, USA, where he teaches the history of the United States and global history. His most recent book is Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014), which won the 2015 Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History. Dominic Sachsenmaier is Professor of Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives at Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. In the past, he held faculty positions at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany and Duke University, USA as well as the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. His main research interests are Chinese and global history.