Breeds of Empire

Greg Bankoff is a social and environmental historian of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In particular, he writes on environmental society interactions with respect to natural hazards, resources, human animal relations, and issues of social equity and labour. He is professor of modern history in the Department of History, University of Hull. Among his publications are Crime, Society and the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines (Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1996) and Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). He is also co-editor of Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People (with Georg Frerks and Dorothea Hilhorst, London: Earthscan, 2004).

Sandra Swart is an environmental and social historian of southern Africa. She received both a DPhil in Modern History and MSc in Environmental Change from the University of Oxford. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. She has published on themes as various as Afrikaner identity, animals in history and social rebellion in, amongst others, the Journal of Southern African Studies and Journal of African History. She is the co-editor, with Lance van Sittert, of Canis Africanis: A Dog History of Southern Africa and she is currently writing the history of horses in southern Africa.