Tsukasa Mizushima is a Professor in the Department of Oriental History at the University of Tokyo. His interests include Indian rural development, Pan-Asian GIS-based historical studies, and global history from an Asian perspective. He is the author of Nattar and the Socio-Economic Change in South India in the 18th-19th Centuries (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1986) and others.

George Bryan Souza is affiliated with the University of Texas, San Antonio and, recently, a Mercator Guest Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is the author of The Survival of Empire: Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea, 1630-1754 (Cambridge University Press, 1986 and 2004) and Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, c. 1585-1800: Merchants, Commodities and Commerce (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 2014).

Dennis O. Flynn has been Alexander R. Heron Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of the Pacific, since 1998, and Director, Pacific World History Institute, since 2000. He is author/editor of eleven previous volumes, and co-General Editor (with Arturo Giráldez) of the seventeen-volume series The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples, and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 2001-2014).

Contributors are: George Bryan Souza, Dennis O. Flynn, Marie A. Lee, Ghulam A. Nadri, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Tsukasa Mizushima, Tomotaka Kawamura, Atushi Ota, Ryuto Shimada, and Ei Murakami.