Contributors

Peter Fibiger B ang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the comparative economic history and political economy of early empires. He is the author of Roman Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire (2008) and is working on a comparative study of the Roman state and patrimonial government. He has also published a number of articles on the comparative history of early empires and is the coeditor of the forthcoming Empires in Contention (with Chris Bayly) and The Oxford Handbook of the Ancient State (with Walter Scheidel). He chairs the management committee of the European research network “Tributary Empires Compared” that coordinates comparative study of the Roman, Mughal, and Ottoman empires.

Maria H. Dettenhofer is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Munich. Her research focuses on Roman political and court history, gender, and the comparative history of Rome and Han China. She is the author of Per-dita Iuventus: Zwischen den Generationen von Caesar und Augustus (1992) and Herrschaft und Widerstand im augusteischen Principat: Die Konkurrenz zwischen res publica und domus Augusta (2000) and the editor of Reine Mdnnersache: Frauen in Mdnnerdomdnen der antiken Welt (1994).

Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University. He specializes in the history of ancient China and is the author of Sanctioned Violence in Early China (1990), Writing and Authority in Early China (1999), The Construction of Space in Early China (2006), and The Flood Myths of Early China (2006). He has recently completed a series of three books on the history of early Chinese empires, The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (2007), Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (in press), and a forthcoming sequel on the Tang period.

Nathan Rosenstein is Professor of History at Ohio State University. He specializes in Roman military, political, and social history, and is the author of Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocratic Competition in the Middle and

Late Republic (1990) and Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic (2004), and coeditor of War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (1999, with Kurt Raaflaub) and A Companion to the Roman Republic (2006, with Robert Morstein-Marx).

Walter Scheidel is Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History at Stanford University. His research focuses on ancient social and economic history, premodern historical demography, and comparative and transdisciplinary world history. He has authored or (co)edited nine other books, including Measuring Sex, Age, and Death in the Roman Empire (1996), Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt (2001), Debating Roman Demography (2001), The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (2007, with Ian Morris and Richard Saller), and The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium (2008, with Ian Morris). He is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (with Alessandro Barchiesi), and The Oxford Handbook of the Ancient State (with Peter Bang), and working on monographs on ancient empires and ancient demography.

Karen Turner is the Rev. John Brooks Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross. Her work focuses on comparative law, Chinese legal history, Vietnamese history, law and human rights in Asia, and women and war. Her publications include Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam (1998) and The Limits of the Rule of Law in China (2000), as well as numerous articles on comparative legal history, women and war, and women veterans in Vietnam. She produced and directed the documentary film Hidden Warriors: Voices from the Ho Chi Minh Trail and is currently working on a book on the origins of law in China.