Jeanette Kamp is specialised in European History and is a Post Doc researcher at Leiden University.Susan Legêne is professor of Political History and dean of the faculty of Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Matthias van Rossum (1984) is a historian and senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. He focuses on the history of slavery in Asia and its links to the Atlantic slave trade.Sebas Rümke specialises in Chinese Historiography and is doing a PhD at the University of Hamburg and at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

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• Introduction, Structure of the book, 1 Historical research: the importance of the research question, 2 The building blocks of the historical method, 3 Applying the historical method, 4 Writing History: Narrative and argument, 5 Presentation and historical debate, 6 A historian – now what?, Appendices, Acknowledgements, List of diagrams, Index