Professor Kirti Chaudhuri FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990
Subjects
History

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 Javed Majeed FBA

Intellectual and literary history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia; colonialism, nationalism and literature; language politics and ideas of language in South Asia; Islam and colonialism; modern Urdu literature

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Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA

Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University

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Professor Stuart Carroll FBA

Stuart works on the histories of violence, social relations, law, and the emotions in early modern Europe. He is currently working on the Invention of Civil Society, the sequel to Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (2023).

Stuart Carroll FBA

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