The 19th century poses special problems for historians and social scientists. If conventional views of the march of history are correct, the world should have become modern over this period ...
Frederick Cooper
Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University and author most recently of Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 (2014), Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State (2014), and (with Jane Burbank) Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010). 
