엮음 : 존 로버트 맥닐

조지타운(Georgetown) 대학교 역사학 교수. 주요 저서로는 The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain , 1700-1763 (UNC Press, 1985), The Mountains of the Mediterranean World (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World (Norton & Company, 2000), The Human Web : A Bird's- eye View of World History (Norton & Company, 2003), Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean , 1620-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) 등이 있다.

엮음 : 케네스 포메란츠

시카고(Chicago) 대학교 역사학 교수. 주요 저서로는 The Great Divergence: China , Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2000), The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937 (University of California Press, 1993), The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture , and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (공저, Routledge, 2012) 등이 있다.