Alessandro Stanziani is Professor, EHESS, in Global History and Research director, CNRS (alessandro.stanziani@ehess.fr). His main interests and fields are: Global history; Labor history; Russian history, eighteenth-twentieth century; Indian ocean, labor, eighteenth-nineteenth century; Economic, business and labor history, Europe (France, Britain), eighteenth-early twentieth century; Food history, eighteenth-twentieth century. His main individual books include: L'économie en révolution. Le cas russe, 1870-1930 (Paris: Albin Michel, 1998); Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XVIII-XX siècle (Paris: Seuil, 2005); Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, paperback 2014); Bâtisseurs d’empires, Russie, Chine, Inde à la croisée des mondes, XVe-XIXe siècle (Paris: Liber, 2012); Bondage, Labor and rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries (New York, Berghahm 2014, paperback 2015); After Oriental Despotism: Warfare, Labour and Growth in Eurasia (London: Bloomsbury, 2014); Seamen, Immigrants and Convicts in the Indian Ocean, 1750-1914 (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014); Labor in the Fringes of Empire: Voice, Exit and the Law (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018); Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018); Les entrelacements du monde. Histoire globale, pensée globale (XVIe-XXIe siècles) (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2018).
