Robert J. Antony, a research\nprofessor of Asian history in the Department of History, Faculty of Social\nSciences and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), recently co-edited two\nspecial issues on \u201cPiracy in Asian Waters\u201d of the Journal of Early Modern History\n(issue 16, 2012 and issue 17, 2013), with Prof. Sebastian Prange from the\nUniversity of British Columbia. The two special issues consist of eight\narticles on various aspects of pan-Asian piracy from the 14th century to the\nearly 19th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Established in 1996, the\nJournal of Early Modern History publishes original research of an\ninterdisciplinary and cross-cultural nature on the early modern period (roughly\nfrom the year 1300 to 1800). It is internationally recognised as one of the\npremier scholarly journals in world history. Prof. Antony notes that the\npublication is a result of the International Conference on Asian Piracy from\nHistorical Perspectives, which was held at UM from 24 November to 26 November,\nin 2010, and which was co-organised by Prof. Robert Antony and Prof. Akiko\nSugiyama from UM as well as Prof. Sebastian Prange from the University of\nBritish Columbia. After the conference, Prof. Antony single-authored an article\nentitled \u201cBloodthirsty Pirates? Violence and Terror on the South China Sea in\nEarly Modern Times.\u201d, as well as co-authored two introductory articles entitled\n\u201cThe Social and Economic Dynamics of Piracy in Early Modern Asia\u201d and \u201cPiracy,\nSovereignty, and the Early Modern Asian State.\u201d with Prof. Prange. <\/p>\n\n\n\nProf. Antony received his PhD degree in history from the University of\nHawaii. Currently he teaches East Asian and Comparative History at UM. His\nresearch interests mainly include Asian and world maritime history, as well as\nthe social, cultural, and legal history of China. His recent publications\ninclude Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in\nLate Imperial South China (University of California, China Research Monograph,\n2003), Pirates in the Age of Sail (W.W. Norton, 2007), and Turbulent Waters:\nPirates of the South China Seas (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Press,\n2013). His current research focus is on the social and religious history of the\nGulf of Tonkin maritime frontier in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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