Professor Kirti Chaudhuri FBA

History

Elected 1990

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1990
Sections: Early Modern History to 1850

Current post

Emeritus Professor of the History of the European Expansion, European University Institute, Florence, and Director, Centre for Comparative Studies in Provence

Past appointments

European University Institute, Florence Vasco da Gama Professor of the History of European Expansion

1991 - 1999

Soas, University Of London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Economic History of Asia

1963 - 1991

Publications

The trading world of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 1978

Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750 1985

Asia before Europe: economy and civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the rise of Islam to 1750 1990

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Suraiya Faroqhi FBA

Social history with a focus on the early modern Ottoman Empire (1500s to early 1800s), especially concerned with Istanbul and the towns of Anatolia; comparative history of artisans, using Ottoman archival records to analyse their social positions, the conditions under which they worked and the products of their labour

Sir Keith Thomas FBA

History

Dr Felicity Heal FBA

British social and religious history of the C16th and C17th; social practices of elites, especially hospitality and gift-exchange; the political and cultural nature of religious identity in Britain and Ireland

Professor Kirti Chaudhuri FBA

Current post

Emeritus Professor of the History of the European Expansion, European University Institute, Florence, and Director, Centre for Comparative Studies in Provence

Past appointments

European University Institute, Florence Vasco da Gama Professor of the History of European Expansion

1991 - 1999

Soas, University Of London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Economic History of Asia

1963 - 1991

Publications

The trading world of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 1978

Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750 1985

Asia before Europe: economy and civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the rise of Islam to 1750 1990

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Suraiya Faroqhi FBA

Sir Keith Thomas FBA

Dr Felicity Heal FBA

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Professor Kirti Chaudhuri FBA

Current post

Emeritus Professor of the History of the European Expansion, European University Institute, Florence, and Director, Centre for Comparative Studies in Provence

Past appointments

European University Institute, Florence Vasco da Gama Professor of the History of European Expansion

1991 - 1999

Soas, University Of London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Economic History of Asia

1963 - 1991

Publications

The trading world of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 1978

Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750 1985

Asia before Europe: economy and civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the rise of Islam to 1750 1990

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Suraiya Faroqhi FBA

Sir Keith Thomas FBA

Dr Felicity Heal FBA

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