Ali Humayun Akhtar is a global historian and Professor of Asian Studies at Bates College. He is the author of Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad (2017).

2. Global Beijing under the Great Ming
3. Picturing China in Persian along the Silk Routes
4. Trading with China in Malay along the Spice Routes
5. Europe's Search for the Spice Islands
6. A Sino-Jesuit Tradition of Science and Mapmaking
7. Porcelain across the Dutch Empire
8. Tea across the British Empire
9. China's Eclipse and Japan's Modernization