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"Contributors." Revolutionary Moments: Reading Revolutionary Texts. Ed. Rachel Hammersley. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. ix–xii. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 25 Sep. 2021. <>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 25 September 2021, 11:14 UTC. Copyright © Rachel Hammersley 2015. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. C o n t r i b u t o r s Jennifer E. Altehenger is a lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History at King ’ s College London, UK. She has published essays and reviews in Twentieth- Century China , Frontiers of History in China and Times Higher Education , and is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the dissemination of legal knowledge via propaganda and mass campaigns in the People ’ s Republic of China. Gregory Claeys is professor of history at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of eight books and editor of some fi ft y volumes. Most of these focus on the history of radical, socialist and anti-imperialist movements from c. 1790 – 1920. His current research focuses upon utopianism. George Crowder is a professor in the School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He is the author of Classical Anarchism (1991), Liberalism and Value Pluralism (2002), Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism (2004) and Th eories of Multiculturalism (2013). Rachel Foxley is an associate professor in Early Modern British History at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of Th e Levellers: Radical Political Th ought in the English Revolution (2013) and of several chapters and articles on radical and republican thought in the English Revolution, including ‘ Problems of sovereignty in Leveller writings ’ , History of Political Th ought 24, no. 4 (2007). Julia Gaffi eld is assistant professor of history at Georgia State University, USA. Her research focuses on the early independence period in Haiti and analyses Haiti ’ s connections with the broader Atlantic World during the period of non-recognition. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition aft er Revolution (Chapel Hill: Th e University of North Carolina Press, 2015). RRevolutionaryevolutionary MMoments.indboments.indb iixx 66/16/2015/16/2015 110:34:280:34:28 AAMM x Contributors Xavier Gu é gan is a senior lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Winchester, UK. He is the author of Th e Imperial Aesthetic: Photography, Samuel Bourne and the Indian Peoples in the Post-Mutiny Era (forthcoming) and ‘ Transmissible Sites: Monuments, Memorials and their visibility on the metropole and periphery (French Algeria and British India) ’ in M ü ller and Geppert ’ s Sites of Imperial Memory: Commemorating Dominion in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2015). He is also the co-editor, with M. Farr, of Th e British Abroad since the Eighteenth Century , Vol. 1: Travellers and Tourists and Vol. 2: Experiencing Imperialism (2013). Rachel Hammersley is a senior lecturer in Intellectual History at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of French Revolutionaries and English Republicans: Th e Cordeliers Club, 1790-1794 (2005) and Th e English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France: Between the Ancients and the Moderns (2010). She has also written a number of articles dealing with the ideas of revolution, republicanism and democracy in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Britain, France and America. Jonathan J. Howlett is a lecturer in Modern Asian History at the University of York, UK. His research focuses on the elimination of the Western presence from China aft er 1949 and the manifold ways in which this change was experienced by ordinary people. A monograph on this subject is forthcoming. Articles on related topics have been published in Modern Asian Studies and the European Journal of East Asian History . He is also the co-editor of a soon-to-be-published volume titled Britain and China: Empire, Finance and War . Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Among her publications are Inventing Human Rights (2007); with Jack Censer, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (2001); and with Suzanne Desan and William Nelson (eds), Th e French Revolution in Global Perspective (2013). Mark Knights is professor of history at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published a number of works about later Stuart political culture, including Th e Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (2011), which contains a chapter about the Sacheverell trial. He is also the editor of Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr RRevolutionaryevolutionary MMoments.indboments.indb x 66/16/2015/16/2015 110:34:290:34:29 AAMM Contributors xi Henry Sacheverell (2012). He is currently working on a book about corruption in Britain and its colonies from the reformation to reform. Daniel Leese is associate professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China ’ s Cultural Revolution (2011) and the editor of Brill ’ s Encyclopedia of China (2009). Lars T. Lih is an adjunct professor at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Canada, and writes about Russian and socialist history. His publications include Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914 – 1921 (1990), Lenin Rediscovered (2006) and Lenin (2011). At present, he is engaged in research on Bolshevik politics in 1917. Marisa Linton is reader in history at Kingston University, UK. She has written extensively on the French Revolution and its ideological origins. She is the author of Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution (2013) and Th e Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (2001); and she is the co-editor of Conspiracy in the French Revolution (2007). Derek Off ord is research professor in Russian at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a specialist in pre-revolutionary Russian history and culture and has published books on the Russian revolutionary movement, early Russian liberalism, Russian travel writing and the broader history of Russian thought, as well as two books on contemporary Russian grammar and usage. He is currently leading a multidisciplinary project, funded by the AHRC, on the history of the French language in Russia. Within the framework of this project he has co-authored and co-edited (with Gesine Argent and Vladislav Rj é outski) a book on European francophonie, a cluster of articles on foreign-language use in eighteenth-century Russia and two volumes forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press on the interplay of French and Russian in Imperial Russia. Robert G. Parkinson is assistant professor of history at SUNY-Binghamton University, USA. He is a former postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. His book, Th e Common Cause: Th e Foundations of Race and Nation in the American Revolution , is forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press. RRevolutionaryevolutionary MMoments.indboments.indb xxii 66/16/2015/16/2015 110:34:290:34:29 AAMM xii Contributors Christopher Read is professor of modern European history at the University of Warwick, UK. He has written widely on the intellectual, political and social history of Russia from 1881 to 1930. His works include Lenin: a Revolutionary Life (2006) and War and Revolution in Russia 1914-1922 (2013). He is currently writing a biography of Stalin scheduled to appear in 2015. Th omas Rodgers is a lecturer in American History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His current research investigates the concept of coercion in the process of state formation during the American Revolution. Michael Sonenscher is a fellow of King ’ s College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of several books on eighteenth-century French political thought, including Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution (2008). He is presently writing a book entitled Th e Ancients, the Moderns and the Political Ideologies of Modernity . Richard Whatmore is professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews, UK, and director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of Republicanism and the French Revolution (2000) and Against War and Empire (2012). Johnson Kent Wright is professor of history at Arizona State University, USA, former editor of the journal French Historical Studies and author of A Classical Republican in Eighteenth-Century France: the Political Th ought of Mably (1997). He has also written a number of articles dealing with Montesquieu, Rousseau and the historiography of the Enlightenment. Julian Wright is an intellectual historian, concerned with the problem of time in political culture. He is exploring the theme of revolutionary and post-revolutionary culture in France through a study of the French socialist movement, currently under contract with Oxford University Press: Time Present and Time Future: Socialism and Modernity in France . RRevolutionaryevolutionary MMoments.indboments.indb xxiiii 66/16/2015/16/2015 110:34:290:34:29 AAMM.