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Katherine Aaslestad is Associate Professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University. Her main research interests are modern German and European history, including gender in modern Europe since 1750 and north Germany during the revolutionary era. She has published articles on such themes as nineteenth-century German political culture, gender and consumption, civic republicanism, and the experience and memory of war. Her articles have appeared in The Proceed- ings from the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe and Central European History. Her mono- graph, Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Ger- many during the Revolutionary Era, in the series Studies in Central European Histories, appeared in 2005 with Brill Press. Together with Karen Hagemann she edited the Special Issue of the Journal Central European History 39:4 (2006): Collaboration, Resistances and Reform: Ex- periences and Memories of the Napoleonic Wars in Central Europe.

Dirk Bönker is Assistant Professor at Duke University, specializing in the military history of the Western world. His research interests focus on militarism, warfare, and geopolitics in Germany and the United States since 1870. He is currently preparing a book-length study of navalism, militarization, and empire in these two countries before World War I. His publications include: "Military History, Militarization, and the ‘American Century’," Zeithistorische Forschungen 2:1 (2005); "Admiration, Enmity, and Cooperation: U.S. Navalism and the British and German Empires before the Great War," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 2:1 (2001). 2

Matthew Brown is Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. His main fields of teaching and research are national identity in Latin America; travel and adventure in Hispanic American literature; Colombia, 1800-2000. His current research project focuses on the battle of El Santu- ario, in Colombia in 1829, where the valiant patriotic hero José María Córdoba was assassi- nated in cold blood by Rupert Hand, a villainous Irish mercenary in the service of Simón Bolívar’s Colombian state. His publications include: Adventuring through the Spanish Colonies: Simón Bolívar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations in Gran Colombia (Liverpool, 2006), co-editor of Militares extranjeros en la independencia de Colombia: Nuevas perspectivas (Bogotá, 2005). He is currently editing a collection of essays on British informal empire in Latin America in the long nineteenth century.

Chad Bryant is Assistant Professor of East European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests include nationalism, state practices, and the politics of everyday life in modern Eastern Europe. He is also interested in Czech-German relations during World War I and the history of travel to, from, and within Eastern Europe. His forthcoming book examines Nazi rule and nationality politics in the occupied Czech lands from 1939 to 1945. Two articles on the subject appeared in the Winter 2002 issues of Slavic Review and Kudej, a Czech-language journal of cultural history. A related research project resulted in "Whose Na- tion? Czech Dissidents and History Writing from a Post-1989 Perspective,“ History and Memory 12:1 (2000).

Thomas Cardoza is Professor of Humanities at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. His main field of teaching and research is Early Modern and Modern French history. He is currently working on a research project treating “Enfants de troupe,” children of cantinières and soldiers who were officially enrolled as “children of the regiment.” He recently completed a monograh entitled, Cantinières and Vivandères of the French Army, 1750-1906. His articles include: “Exceeding the Needs of the Service: the French Army and the Suppression of Female Auxiliaries 1871-1906,” War and Society 20:1 (2002); "These Unfortunate Children: Sons and Daughters of the Regi- ment in the French Army, 1789-1815," in James Marten, ed., Children and War: an Anthology (New York, 2002); and “Stepchildren of the State: Educating Enfants de Troupe in the French Army 1800-1845,” Paedagocica Historica 37:3 (2001). 3

D’Ann Campbell is the Director of Foundation and Government Relations of the Coast Guard Foundation and Director of American History Projects, Inc. Her first book, Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era, was published by Harvard University Press in 1984; her co-edited reference work, Americans at War (New York, 2005), was named “Best Reference Book of 2005” by American Library Association. She has written over a dozen articles on servicewomen in WW II including "Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the U.S., England, Germany and U.S.S.R," Journal of Military History 57 (1993), which was awarded the Moncado Prize of the Society of Military History for "Best Article.”

Sarah Chambers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores political culture and citizenship during Spanish America’s transition from colonialism to independence. She is currently writing a book on the intersections of family and politics in Chile from about 1780 to 1860. She is also beginning a new research project into migrations spurred by the wars of independence in South America that will trace the paths of internal refugees, political exiles, royalist émigrés and consider how these movements, and their gendered nature, affected the formation of new national identities. Her publications include: From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854 (Penn State, 1999); (Co-editor with Sueann Caulfield and Lara Putnam), Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America (Durham, 2005). “Masculine Virtues and Feminine Passions: Gender and Race in the Republicanism of Simón Bolívar,” Hispanic Research Journal 7:1 (2006); “Letters and Salons: Women Reading and Writ- ing the Nation in the Nineteenth Century,” in Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writ- ing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Eds. John C. Chasteen and Sara Castro- Klaren (Washington, 2003)

Anna Clark is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in British history, including Irish history, and the history of the British Empire. Her main fields of research are British working class history, the study of scandals and high politics in the eighteenth century, and more recently the relationship of the state, gender, and empire in the nineteenth century Britain. Her publications include: The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (Berkeley, 1995); The History of Suffrage (co-edited with Sarah Richardson et al, 2000, reprinted sources); Scandal: the Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (Princeton, 2003); Her current projects are "Desire: A History of Sexuality in Europe," a work intended for the general reader and students, and “Engendering the British State”, a research project on the poor law, imperialism, the franchise, and criminal law in nineteenth-century British imperial history. 4

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and a Fellow of the Brit- ish Academy. She favors cross-disciplinary history, and in both her writing and her teaching examines Britain’s past in a broader European, imperial, and global context. Her books include In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (London, 1982); Namier (New York, 1988); Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (London, 1992) which won the Wolfson Prize; Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850 (London, 2002), which has been the subject of Con- ferences in London, Paris, and Tasmania, and the forthcoming The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (2007). In addition to articles in scholarly journals, she writes regularly on history and politics for the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and the London Guard- ian.

Elizabeth Colwill is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. Her main field of teaching and research are European cultural history, Women's history, and the intersecting histories of gender, sexuality and colonialism from 1700. She is currently working on a manuscript on gender, ritual, and slave emancipation in revolutionary Saint Domingue. An essay drawn from this research entitled “Fêtes de l’hymen, fêtes de la liberté: Matrimony and Emancipation in Saint-Domingue, 1793,” is forthcoming in The Haitian Revolution: 200 Years After, edited by David Geggus and Norman Fiering. Her published work includes "Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution," repr. in Marie- Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen, ed. Dena Goodman (London, 2003); “Subjectivity, Self-Representation, and the Revealing Switches of Biography,” in French Historical Studies 24:3 (2001); “Epistolary Passions: Friendship and the Literary Public of Constance de Salm, 1767-1845,” The Journal of Women’s History 12:3 (2000); "Women's Empire" and the Sover- eignty of Man in La Décade philosophique, 1770-1807," Eighteenth-Century Studies 29:3 (1996).

Christopher Dandeker is Professor of Military Sociology in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He is a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS) and a member of its Council. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal Armed Forces and Society and Vice-President of the Research Committee, Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution of the Inter- national Sociological Association. Current Research and Consultancy Projects his work focuses on all aspects of civil-military relations, broadly conceived. He has a particular interest in personnel issues in the contemporary armed forces of Europe and North America. His most recent work has concerned strategic personnel policy in the UK, the evolution of British military culture 5 and current developments in the Swedish defence forces. He is currently working on a book on the 'New Military: Armed Forces and Society for the 21st Century’, to be published by Polity Press. His publications include: Surveillance, Power and Modernity: Bureaucracy and Discipline from 1700 to the Present Day (New York, 1994); Nationalism and Violence, editor (New Bruns- wick, 1997); The New Military (Cambridge, 2006).

Catherine Davies is Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has published on the literature, history and culture of 19th and 20th C. Spain and Spanish Amer- ica, with particular focus on gender and politics. Her books include: A Place in the Sun? Women's Writing in Twentieth-century Cuba (New York, 1997), Spanish Women's Writing 1849- 1996 (London, 1998), and an edition of the Cuban abolitionist novel Sab [1841] by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Manchaster, 2001). She was director of the Arts and Humanities Re- search Council’s five-year research project ‘Gendering Latin American Independence: Women’s Political Culture and the Textual Construction of Gender 1790-1850’, and is co-author (with C. Brewster and H. Owen) of South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text (Liverpool, 2006).

Laurent Dubois is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, where he teaches Caribbean and Atlantic History. He has published Les Esclaves de la République: l’histoire oubliée de la pre- mière émancipation, 1789-1794 (Paris, 1998); Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge, 2004); A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipa- tion in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (Chapel Hill, 2004); and, with John Garrigus, Revolu- tion in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A History in Documents (Boston, 2006). A Colony of Citizens received the Atlantic History Prize and the John H. Fagg Award from the American Historical As- sociation, the David Pickney Prize for the best book in French History from the Society for French Historical Studies, and the Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute. He is currently working, with Richard Turits, on A History of the Caribbean, on a history of the banjo, and on a series of essays about French soccer.

Stefan Dudink teaches at the Institute for Gender Studies of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands and is co-director of the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society of the University of Amsterdam. His main field of research is the history of gender and sexuality in modern Western political culture, with a focus on the Netherlands. He has published a study on Dutch late nineteenth-century liberalism, Deugdzaam liberalisme: sociaal-liberalisme in Nederland, 1870- 6

1901 (Amsterdam, 1997), and various articles and book chapters on masculinity and homo- sexuality. He is co-editor with Karen Hagemann and John Tosh of Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History (Manchester, 2004) and with Karen Hagemann and Anna Clark of Representing Masculinity: Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture (New York, 2007).

Kathleen DuVal is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her main fields of research are French and Spanish colonial North America, the American Revolution, and American Indian history. Recent publications include: The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006); “Interconnectedness and Diversity in ‘French Louisiana’,” in Powhatan’s Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, ed. Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, M. Thomas Hatley (Lincoln, 2006); “Cross-Cultural Crime and Osage Justice in the Western Mississippi Valley,” Ethnohistory 53:1 (2007); “Debating Identity, Sovereignty, and Civilization: The Arkansas Valley after the Louisiana Purchase,” Journal of the Early Republic 26:1 (2006); “ ‘A Good Relationship, & Commerce’: The Native Political Economy of the Arkansas River Val- ley,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2:1 (2003).

David Eltis is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University. His research interests focus on early modern Atlantic World, slavery, and migration - both coerced and free. He is the author of Economic Growth and The Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Oxford, 1987), which won the British Trevor Reese Memorial Prize, and The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (Cambridge, 2000), awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize, the John Ben Snow Prize, and the Wesley-Logan Prize. He is editor and contributor to Coerced and Free Migration: Global Per- spectives (Stanford, 2002); co-editor and contributor to a special issue of William and Mary Quarterly (2001); Routes to Slavery: Direction, Mortality and Ethnicity in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1595-1867 (London, 1997). He is also co-creator of The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Da- tabase on CD-ROM (New York, 1999). He is currently at work on a census of the Atlantic slave trade, a book on slave ship revolts, an analysis of the identity of captive Africans put on board slave ships, and is co-editing The Cambridge World History of Slavery.

Alan Forrest is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, United Kingdom. He works on modern French history, especially the period of the French Revolution and Empire, and on the history of modern warfare. He serves on the edi- torial boards of French History and War in History, and is a member of the advisory committee for Annales historiques de la Revolution Française. He is a member of the project board of the 7 project Nations, Borders, Identities. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Expe- riences, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His publications include The French Revolution and the Poor (1981); Conscripts and Deserters: The Army and French Soci- ety during the Revolution and Empire (Oxford, 1989); Soldiers of the French Revolution (Dur- ham, 1990); Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (London, 2002); Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution (2004), and - co-authored with Jean-Paul Bertaud and Annie Jourdan - Napoleon, le monde et les Anglais (London, 2004).

Karen Hagemann is James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the history of Germany and Europe from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, and women’s and gender history, in particular the history of welfare states, labor culture and women’s movements, as well as the history of the nation, the military, and war. She currently directs the British-German research project “Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences and Memories,” funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board and the German Research Foundation. Her most recent books include: Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century, co-edited with Ida Blom, Catherine Hall (Oxford, New York, 2000); Home/Front: Military and Gender in 20th Century Germany, ed. with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Oxford, New York, 2002); ”Mannlicher Muth und Teutsche Ehre:” Nation, Militär und Geschlecht zur Zeit der An- tinapoleonischen Kriege Preußens (Paderborn, 2002); Masculinities in Politics and War: Gen- dering Modern History, co-edited with Stefan Dudink and John Tosh (Manchester, 2004); Mil- itärische Erinnerungskultur. Soldaten im Spiegel von Biographien, Memoiren and Selbstzeugnissen, co-edited with Michael Epkenhans and Stig Förster (Paderborn, 2006).

Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Her My research focuses on re-thinking the relation between Britain and its empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is particularly interested in the ways in which empire impacted upon metropolitan life, how the empire was lived 'at home', and how English identities, both masculine and feminine, were constituted in relation to the multiple 'others' of the empire. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 (Chicago, 1987, 2002) was jointly written with Leonore Davidoff. Since the 1990s she has been working on questions of nation, empire and identity and has published extensively, including Civilising Subjects. Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 (Chicago, 2002), awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize by the American Historical Association; Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. A Reader (New York, 2000); with Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall, Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Re- 8 form Act of 1867 (Cambridge, 2000); and a recent collection edited with Sonya Rose, At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (Cambridge, 2006). Her current research focuses on Macaulay and the writing of history.

Barbara Harris is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on Yorkist and early Tudor England. More specifically she has concentrated on political and women's history. Her publications include: Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1471- 1521 (Stanford, 1986), which analyzes the relations of crown and nobility, and English Aristo- cratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers, a major study of aristocratic women in the period (Oxford, 2002). Her new project, Aristocratic English Women and Cultural Patronage, 1450-1550, deals with a dimension of aristocratic women’s activity that she did not cover extensively in her previous book.

Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History in the History Department at the Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles. She was President of the American Historical Association in 2002 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Her main field of research and teaching are French history and European history and the history of history as an academic discipline. Her specialties include the French Revolution, gender history, cultural history and historiography. Her current research projects include an examination of the origins of human rights in the 18th century and a collective study of the engrav- ings of Bernard Picart, who provided the illustrations for an early eighteenth-century comparative study of the world's religions. Her books include Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (Berkeley, 1984); The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Berkeley, 1992); Telling the Truth about History (1994); co-edited with Victoria Bonnell, Beyond the Cultural Turn (Berkeley, 1999); and Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (University Park, 2001). Her books have been translated into ten languages. Her new book, Inventing Hu- man Rights, is scheduled for publication in spring 2007. 9

Sherry Johnson is Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Florida International Univer- sity in Miami. Her research and teaching interests include Cuba and the Caribbean, environ- ment and climate change, disasters such as drought and hurricanes, medicine, women and gender, and social history. Her first book, The Social Transformation of Eighteenth Century Cuba (Gainesville, 2001), reinterprets the political events of the late eighteenth-century in Cuba based upon the emergence of two political factions. She is finishing her most recent book, Cli- mate and Catastrophe in the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1810, which should appear in the very near future. She has published articles in the William & Mary Quarterly, the Hispanic American Historical Review, Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, the Colonial Latin American Historical Review, and the Florida Historical Quarterly. Her current projects include an examination of how ordinary summer fevers contributed to the British victory at Havana in 1762; a comparison of two smallpox epidemics in the Hispanic Caribbean in 1769 and 1776; a study of domestic violence in Cuba from 1766-1800; and the publication of ship’s log kept in 1821- 1822 with an introductory essay.

Catriona Kennedy is Research Fellow at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York working in connection with the research project Nations, Borders, Identities. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Experiences, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her research and teaching interests are the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Britain and Ireland, the history of Irish nationalism, women’s and gender history, and the history of ideas. She is working on the post-doctoral project “Nations, Borders and Identities: The experience of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in Britain and Ireland, 1792-1815”. She has published “’Womanish Epistles’: Martha McTier, female epistolarity and late eighteenth-century Irish radicalism,” Women’s History Review 13:1 (2004).

Gregory T. Knouff is Associate Professor at the Department of History of the Keene State College, New Hamp- shire. His research focuses on early North American history, with a focus on the history of gender/masculinity and the military and war. He is the author of Major Problems in American Military History: Documents and Essays, co-edited with John W. Chambers, and G. Kurt Piehler (Washington, 1999); The Soldiers' Revolution: Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity (University Park, 2004) and several articles. 10

Richard Kohn is Omar N. Bradley Professor of Strategic Leadership at the US Army War College and Dickin- son College, Carlisle, PA, while on leave from being Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His main fields of research are American military history and civil-military relations. His recent publications: Soldiers and Civil- ians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security, co-edited with Peter D. Feaver (Cambridge, 2001); “Civil-Military Relations: Civilian Control of the Military,” in The Oxford Com- panion to American Military History, ed. by John Whiteclay (New York, 1999); “The Erosion of Civilian Control of the Military in the United States Today,” Naval War College Review, 55:1 (2002); and “Using the Military at Home: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Chicago Journal of International Law 4:1 (2003).

Wolfgang Koller is research fellow and doctoral candidate at the Centre for French Studies and the Institute of History of the Technical University of Berlin. He is working in connection with the research project on “Nations, Borders, Identities: The Memories of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Feature Films (1895-1945)” financed by the German Research Foundation as part of the project group "Nations, Borders, Identities: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memories." He studied History, Political Science, and Spanish and Latin American Literature in Regensburg, Madrid and Berlin between 1996 and 2003. He also participated in the exhibition “The World War 1914-1918. Event and Memory” (Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918. Ereignis und Erinnerung) at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. His main fields of study have been Classical Mexican Cinema, German Cinema during National Socialism and historical picturisa- tions.

Claudia Kraft is Professor of East European history at Erfurt University. Her main fields of research are the history of Central and Eastern Europe since the 18th century. She has done research on the interwar period in Poland, on forced migrations in Europe after World War II, and on the history of collective memory in the second half of the twentieth century. Recently she has been exploring interests in the history of gender relations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the Polish lands. Her recent publications are: Europa im Blick der polnischen Juristen. Recht- sordnung und juristische Profession in Polen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Nation und Europa, 1918-1939 (Frankfurt/M, 2002); „Europäische Peripherien - Europäische Identität: Über den Umgang mit der Vergangenheit im zusammenwachsenden Europa am Beispiel Polens und Spaniens,“ Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte 4 (2003); „Recollecting Expulsion - Locating German Refugees in Polish and Czech Memories”, in Restitution and Memory: Historical Re- 11 membrance and Material Restoration in Europe, ed. by Dan Diner (Oxford, 2006); „Die Polin als Staatsbürgerin: Reformdebatten in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts“, in Women's Movements, Networks and Debates in Post-Communist Countries in the 19th and 20th Centu- ries, ed. by Elisabeth Frysak, Margareth Lanzinger and Edith Saurer (Cologne, 2006).

Lloyd Kramer is Chair and Dean Smith Distinguished Term Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests focus on Modern European History with an emphasis on nineteenth-century France. Other research and teaching interests deal with the roles of intellectuals in modern societies and the theoretical foundations of historical knowledge. One recurring theme in all of his research and teaching stresses the importance of cross-cultural exchanges in modern world history. His publications include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 (Ithaca, 1988); Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (Chapel Hill, 1996); Nationalism: Political Cul- tures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 (New York, 1998); co-editor of Learning History in America: Schools, Cultures and Politics (Minneapolis, 1994); "Literature Criticism, and Historical Imagination: The Literary Challenge of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra," The New Cul- tural History, ed. Lynn Hunt (Berkeley, 1989). He is also co-author, with R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton, of A History of the Modern World, 9th edition (New York, 2002) and, co-editor with Sarah Maza, of A Companion to Western Historical Thought (Malden, Mass., 2002).

Wayne E. Lee

Is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. His main fields of research are Early Modern Military History and the history of violence in North America and the Atlantic world. His publications include: Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Cul- ture of Violence in Riot and War (Gainesville, 2001); "Fortify, Fight, or Flee: Tuscarora and Cherokee Defensive Warfare and Military Culture Adaptation," Journal of Military History 68:4 (2004); "Peace Chiefs and Blood Revenge: Patterns of Restraint in Native American Warfare in the Contact and Colonial Eras," Journal of Military History (forthcoming); "Mind and Matter-- Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field," Journal of American History (forthcoming, March 2007). "Early American Ways of War: A New Reconais- sance, 1600-1815" The Historical Journal 44:2 (2001). 12

Ruth Leiserowitz is affiliated with the Berlin School for European Comparative History at the Free University of Berlin as a Research Fellow of the project “Nation, Borders, Identities. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in European Memories,” which is funded by the German Research Founda- tion. She is working on a research project on Polish and Russian memories of the Napoleonic Wars. Her main fields of research are Modern and Contemporary History, European History, especially Baltic, Polish, and Russian history, cultural and social history as well as Jewish history. Her most recent publications include Memellandbuch. Fünf Jahrzehnte Nachkriegsgeschichte (Berlin, 2002); “Rekonstruktion von Identität und Imagination. Neue jüdische Gemeinden in Klaipeda und Kaliningrad“ in Der Ort des Judentums in der Gegenwart, ed. Hiltrud Wallenborn (Berlin, 2004).

Patricia Lin is a Lecturer at the University of California Berkeley and Senior Analyst & Grant Writer at UC Berkeley’s Center for Educational Partnerships. From 1999 to 2001, she was Assistant Profes- sor at the History Department in the University of San Francisco. Her historical research focuses on the impact of war on state and society. Her publications include "Citizenship, Military Families and the Creation of a New Definition of 'Deserving Poor' in Britain, 1793-1815," Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society 7:1 (2000); "National Identity and Social Mo- bility: Class, Empire and the British Government Overseas Evacuation of Children During the Second World War," 20th Century British History 7:3 (1996); and “Caring for the Nation's Fami- lies: British Soldiers' and Sailors' Families and the State, 1793-1815,” in Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the French Wars, 1790-1820, ed. by Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann and Jane Rendall (forthcoming, Basingstoke, 2007). She is now in the final stages of a manuscript entitled Family, War and the British State, 1793-1815.

Emma V. Macleod is a Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling. She is interested in British political ideas in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in general, with particular reference to the attitudes of the British towards other nations. She published A War of Ideas: British attitudes to the Wars Against Revolutionary France, 1792-1802 (Aldershot, 1998), and she is now working on a study of British attitudes to the newly independent United States of America, c.1783-1832. Recent publications include "Scottish Responses to the Irish Rebellion of 1798,“ in These Fis- sured Isles: Ireland, Scotland and British History, 1798-1848, eds Terry Brotherstone, Anna Clark and Kevin Whelan (Edinburgh, 2005); “The Scottish Whigs in the Age of the French Revo- lution,“ in Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution, ed. Bob Harris (Edinburgh, 2005); and “La Question du Citoyen Actif: Les conservateurs Britanniques face à la Révolution française,“ in Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 342 (2005). 13

Alexander M. Martin is Associate Professor of European history at the University of Notre Dame, with a specialization in Imperial Russia. His research extends from the 1760s - when the European influences intro- duced by Peter the Great began fusing with native traditions to produce a highly dynamic synthesis in governance and culture - to 1855, when that synthesis became destabilized through social and cultural change. In Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (DeKalb, 1993), he examined efforts in the Na- poleonic era to position Russia as Europe’s pillar of monarchy, faith, and order. His current research explores Russian society’s experience in the Napoleonic Wars and 19th century debates about social modernization, with a focus on the city of Moscow. He is also one of three editors of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.

Holly A. Mayer is Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her research interests center on civil-military relations and the social and cultural histories of the military forces in late eighteenth-century North America. Much of her scholarship has focused on the women with the British and American forces in the Seven Years’ War and the American War for Independence. She is currently editing the journal of a sergeant in the Continental Army and researching Canadian participation in the American Revolution. Mayer’s publications include: Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution (Co- lumbia, 1996); For the Record: A Documentary History of America, co-edited with David Shi (New York, 2004); “From Forbes to Families: Following the Army into Western Pennsylvania, 1758-1766,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 2006); and “Wives, Concubines, and Community: Following the Army,” in War and Society in the American Revolu- tion, ed. by John Resch and Walter Sargent (forthcoming, Dekalb, 2006).

Terence V. McIntosh is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on early modern Germany, especially its political, economic, and religious history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His publications include: Urban Decline in Early Modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and Its Region, 1650-1750 (Chapel Hill, 1997); "Con- fessionalization and the Campaign against Prenuptial Coitus in Sixteenth-Century Germany," in Confessionalization in Europe, 1555-1700: Essays in Honor and Memory of Bodo Nischan, eds. John M. Headley, Hans J. Hillerbrand, and Anthony J. Papalas (Burlington, 2004); and "Pietism, Ministry, and Church Discipline: The Tribulations of Christoph Matthäus Seidel," in Politics and Reformations. Studies in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr., eds. Christopher Ocker et al. (forthcoming, Leiden, 2007). His current project, "The Pastoral Disciplining of Illicit Sex: Godly Order, 14

Enlightenment, and the Professionalization of the Lutheran Clergy in Germany, 1550-1835," examines the pastorate's role in the punishment of illicit sex in the states of Saxony, Württem- berg, and Brandenburg-Prussia and explores long-term changes in the relations between church and society.

Gisela Mettele is Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. Her current research focuses on a transatlantic comparison of public spaces in suburbia. Most important recent publications include Weltbürgertum oder Gottesreich? Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine als interna- tionale Gemeinschaft 1760-1857 (forthcoming, Göttingen, 2007); “Geschichte in bewegten Bil- dern. Historisches Arbeiten mit Dokumentar- und Spielfilmen,” in Historie und Leben. Der Histo- riker als Wissenschaftler und Zeitgenosse, ed. by Dieter Hein, Klaus Hildebrand, and Andreas Schulz (Munich, 2006); “The City and the Citoyenne. Associational Culture and Female Civic Virtues,” in Civil Society and Gender Justice. Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ed. by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel, and Gunilla Budde (forthcoming, Oxford, 2007); “Eine ‘Imag- ined Community’ jenseits der Nation. Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine als transnationale Ge- meinschaft,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 32:1 (2006); Kommerz und fromme Demut. Wirtschaftsethik und Wirtschaftspraxis im „Gefühlspietismus,“ Vierteljahrsschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 92:3 (2005).

Judith Miller is Associate Professor of History at the Emory University, Atlanta. Her fields of teaching and research are Early Modern and Modern French History, in particular European social, cultural and economic History. She is the author of Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in Northern France, 1700-1860 (Cambridge, 1998); and co-editor with Howard G. Brown, Taking Liberties: The Problems of a New Order in France, 1794-1804 (Manchaster, 2002). Her next book project is The Interior Spaces of the Law: Subjectivity and Political Culture in France, 1780-1830.

Cecilia Morgan is Associate Professor in History of Education at the University of Toronto. She began her career as a historian of British North America (1790s-1850s) and also has researched and published on late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century English Canada. She has just completed a manuscript on English-Canadian tourists in Britain and Europe, 1870s-1930 and presently is researching Native travellers from British North America and Canada in Britain and Europe, 1780s-1920s. Her publications include “Performing for ‘Imperial Eyes’: Bernice Loft and Ethel Brant Monture, Ontario, 1930s-1960s,“ in Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial 15

Past, ed. Myra Rutherdale and Katharine Pickles (Vancouver, 2005); “A Wigwam to Westmin- ster”: Performing Mohawk Identity in Imperial Britain, 1890s-1900s,“ Gender & History 25:2 (2003); Colin M. Coates and Cecilia Morgan, Heroines and History: Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (Toronto, 2002); Public Men and Virtuous Women: the Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada 1791-1850 (Toronto, 1996).

Mary Beth Norton is the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University and in 2005-6 was Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. In 1999 she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her main fields of teaching and research are Early Modern American and women’s and gender history. She has written The British- Americans: the Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789 (Boston, 1972); Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (Ithaca,1980, 1996); Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (New York, 1996); and In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (New York, 2002). She is the author, with five others, of A People and A Nation, now in its 7th edition, which has been one of the leading U.S. history textbooks since its initial publication in 1982. Her current project surveys gender and politics in Anglo-America from c. 1640 to c. 1750.

David O’Brien is Associate Professor and Chair of the Art History Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on painting in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. His book, After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda under Na- poleon (Penn State, 2006), examines the rise military painting in France from the Revolution to the Restoration, with particular attention paid to the career of Antoine-Jean Gros. Currently he is researching a book about Eugène Delacroix’s depictions of North Africa. Publications are: After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting, and Propaganda under Napoleon (University Park, 2006). Translated as Antoine-Jean Gros, peintre de Napoléon (2006). “Antonio Canova’s Napo- leon as Mars the Peacemaker and the Limits of Imperial Portraiture,” French History 18:4 (2004). “Propaganda and the Republic of the Arts in Antoine-Jean Gros’s Napoleon Visiting the Battlefield of Eylau the Morning after the Battle,” French Historical Studies, 26:2 (2003); “Colo- nial Reproduction: The Contradictions of Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Painting,” Contempo- rary French Civilization 26:2/3 (2002). 16

Karen Racine is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Guelph in Canada. Her main fields of research are British-Latin American cultural relations 1790-1830, the Spanish American independence era, patriotism, the press, and travel, exile and national identity issues in the revolutionary era. She is the author of Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution 1750-1816 (Wilmington, 2002), and the co-editor of Strange Pilgrimages: Travel, Exile and National Identity in Latin America (Wilmington, 2000), and several articles including: “Anáhuac’s Angry Apostle: Fray Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra (1765- 1827),” in The Human Tradition in Mexico, ed. by Jeffrey M. Pilcher (Wilmington, 2002); "Britan- nia's Bold Brother: British Cultural Influence in Haiti during the Reign of Henry Christophe (1811- 1820)," Journal of Caribbean History 30:3 (1999). She is finishing a book on Spanish Americans in London 1808-1829, and far advanced with two other book manuscripts on Robert Southey and the Luso-Hispanic World, and patriotic culture in the Spanish American independence era.

Brian Holden Reid is Professor of American History and Military Institutions and Head of the Department of War Studies at the King’s College of London. His researches reflected an interest in the history of the British Army in the twentieth century and the study of military thought. He has edited various studies reflecting on the development of British military thought, including Military Strategy in a Changing Europe: Towards the Twenty-First Century (London, 1991); The Science of War (Lon- don, 1993), and Military Power: Land Warfare in Theory and Practice (London, 1997). He is currently engaged in writing a major new history of the American Civil War and hopes to complete the trilogy eventually with a book on the war's impact.

Jane Rendall is Honorary Fellow in the History Department at the University of York. Her research focuses on eigthteenth and nineteenth century British and comparative women's history, and particularly in Scottish women’s history and the Scottish Enlightenment. Her publications include: The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France, and the United States, 1780-1860 (Basing- stoke, 1985); Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, editor (Oxford, 1987); Writing Women’s History: International Perspectives, co-edited with Karen Offen, and Ruth Roach Pier- son (Basingstoke, 1991); Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Re- form Act of 1867, author with Catherine Hall, and Keith McClelland (Cambridge, 2000); Eighteenth-Century York: Culture, Space and Society, co-edited with Mark Hallett (York, 2003).

Alex Roland 17 is Professor of History at the Duke University. His research Interests are military history and the history of technology. His focus has ranged over all of Western experience, and he has recently converted his undergraduate course in military history to a comparative world military history course. His recent publications include: Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Ma- chine Intelligence, 1983-1993, co-authored with Philip Shiman (Cambridge, MA, 2002); The Mili- tary - industrial Complex (Washington D.C., 2001); Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Peter Galison (Dordrecht, 2000, paperback 2001); introduction of Theodore Ropp, War in the Modern World (University Park, 2000).

Jay M. Smith is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on early-modern France, with an emphasis on the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the history of aristocratic identity. His current research focuses on the history of the "beast of the Gévaudan," a real eighteenth century horror story that revolved around the killing of scores of women and children by a mysterious and evidently diabolical creature that roamed the hillsides of southern France in the 1760s. Among his chief publications on the history of the early-modern French nobility are: The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789 (Ann Arbor, 1996); Nobility Reimagined: The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France (Ithaca, 2005); and an edited volume, The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches (University Park, 2006).