STEFAN BERGER Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, the University of Manchester, UK ELIANA DUTRA DE FREITAS Professor of History, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil MARK HEARN Post-Doctoral Fellow, the University of Sydney, Australia BIRGIT SCHAEBLER Professor of History and Chair of West Asian History, the University of Erfurt, Germany RADHIKA SESHAN Lecturer in the Department of History, the University of Pune, India ALLAN SMITH Lecturer in History, the University of British Columbia, Canada IBRAHIMA THIOUB Chair of the History Department of the Faculty of Humanities, the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal Q. EDWARD WANG Professor and Chair of the History Department at Rowan University, USA