viiContributors
▷ Michael W. Charney
Michael W. Charney (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1999) is Professor
of Asian and Military History at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, and formerly Project Professor with the
Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Tokyo. In 2003, he
organized what remains the only workshop specifically focused on early
modern warfare in Southeast Asia. This resulted in the publication of
a special issue of South East Asia Research the following year, which he
edited, on early modern warfare in Southeast Asia. He has written one
of the core studies of early modern warfare across the Southeast Asian
region (Brill, 2004) and numerous articles and chapters in edited books
on both pre-modern Burmese warfare and river warfare in the Southeast
Asian region (published in the Journal of the Economic and Social History
of the Orient, the Journal of Asian History, and elsewhere). Most recently,
he is the author of “Precolonial Southeast Asian Military History”, for
Oxford Bibliographies Online (Spring 2014). His other works include
Powerful Learning : Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma’s Last
Dynasty (2006) and A History of Modern Burma (2009), as well as sev-
eral co–edited volumes on Asian migrant societies.
▷ Hans Hägerdal
Dr Hans Hägerdal is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Cultural
Sciences at Linneaus University, Sweden. Among his publications are
Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Lombok and Bali in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries (2001) and, as editor, Responding to the West: Essays
of Colonial Domination and Asian Agency (2009). He has also authored a
number of books on Vietnamese and Chinese history, Vietnams Historia
(2005), Kinas Historia (2008), and Kinas ledare 1912–2012 (2012). His
latest book Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea: Conflict and Adaptation