ürgen Osterhammel, professor of modern history at the University of Konstanz, is the author, among other titles, of The Flight of the Eagle. The Current World in a Historical Perspective (2019), Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia (2018), The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (2015), Globalization: A Short History (2005) or Max Weber and His Contemporaries (edited with W. J. Mommsen, 1987).