Zoltán Biedermann, Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at University College London, is a historian of early modern global connections with a focus on the Portuguese Empire in Asia. His interests include diplomacy, imperial ideas, cartography, and the politics of space. He received his PhD in 2006 from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He has been a research fellow at UCLA, Assistant Professor at Birkbeck College London, Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University, and Maître de conférences invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
...(Dis)connected Empires is an impressive work of erudition.It is
a work of real distinction that will offer many rewards to
specialist readers of global history, Asian connections, and
colonialism who decide to take the journey along the tortuous,
connected routes described so eloquently by Biedermann.
*Nira Wickramasinghe, Leiden University, Journal of Asian
Studies*
... (Dis)connected Empires is an impressive work of erudition. It
is a work of real distinction that will offer many rewards to
readers of global history, Asian connections, and colonialism who
decide to take the journey along the tortuous, connected routes
described so eloquently by Biedermann.
*Nira Wickramasinghe, Leiden University, Journal of Asian
Studies*
... this theoretically ambitious and empirically rich work ...
makes a compelling case for why Portugal's early imperial
engagements in Asia deserve as much attention as the paradigmatic
Spanish or British and French cases.
*Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University, American Historical
Review*
... thoughtful and thought-provoking ... this book should enjoy a
broad readership because of its deep commitment to methodological
reflection.
*Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia, AAG Review of Books*
... a rich, lucid, captivating and thought-provoking study ... an
important contribution to the burgeoning historiography on the
Habsburg Empire's polycentrism ... feeds into a broader debate
about connected histories.
*Stephan Hanß, University of Manchester, Bulletin of Spanish
Studies*
... a work that, through the dialogues it maintains ... overcomes
Iberian insularity ... draws comparisons and contrasts with other
early modern societies, including those of Early America.
*Jorge Flores, University of Lisbon, Cuadernos de Historia Moderna*
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