Rice: Global Networks and New Histories - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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).