Michael Mann (historian)

Michael Mann (born April 27, 1959 in Tuttlingen ) is a German historian .

Life

He studied the history of South Asia , Middle and Modern History, Indology and German at the University of Heidelberg . From their Philosophical-Historical Faculty he received his doctorate in 1992 with a dissertation on the agricultural and environmental history of North India in the first half of the 19th century.

Since 1992 Michael Mann was employed at the FernUniversität Hagen, initially as a research assistant and from 1993 as a research assistant at the Historical Institute, department for non-European history. In 1999 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences with a thesis on the emergence of the British colonial state in Bengal .

From 2000 on, Michael Mann worked for another six years as a university assistant at the FernUniversität, where he published numerous relevant articles as well as the monograph History of India . From 2005 to 2007, as part of the Gerda Henkel Foundation's funding, he pursued a project on "Historical Representations" as stations of historiography in modern South Asia, for which a monograph has now been published. From 2007 to 2010 he worked on a single project, funded by the German Research Foundation, on telecommunications and the public in South Asia from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Michael Mann has been Professor of South Asian History and Societies at the Department of South Asian Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin since April 1, 2010, and has been the Executive Director of the Institute for Asian and African Studies since April 1, 2011.

Michael Mann's main research interests are the economic, social and environmental history of South Asia from the 18th to the 20th century. In particular, he researches urban development, urban planning, migration and diaspora, telegraphy, the public and the press in South Asia, as well as Indian Ocean Studies as part of a regional scientific discipline oriented towards global history.

Fonts (selection)

Fleet construction and forestry in India 1794–1823 (= contributions to research on South Asia. Volume 175). Steiner, Stuttgart 1996.
British Rule on Indian Soil. North India in the Nineteenth Century. Manohar, New Delhi 1999, 2nd edition 2002.
Bengal in transition. The Formation of the British Colonial State, 1754–1793. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000.
History of India. From the 18th to the 21st century. Schöningh, Paderborn 2005.
Meaningful story. Historical representations in modern South Asia. Draupadi, Heidelberg 2009.
History of South Asia 1500 to today . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2010 ( review ).
Sahibs, slaves and soldiers. History of human trafficking around the Indian Ocean. Von Zabern, Darmstadt / Mainz 2012.
South Asia's Modern History. Thematic Perspectives . Routledge, London / New York 2015.

Web links

Remarks

^ British Rule on Indian Soil. North India in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Delhi: Manohar Publishers 1999, engl. Version of the German dissertation from 1992

personal data
SURNAME	Man, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tuttlingen

[1] British Rule on Indian Soil. North India in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Delhi: Manohar Publishers 1999, engl. Version of the German dissertation from 1992