About the Author

The Contributors: Tom Brass, Jan Lucassen, Andre J. F. Koebben, Reinhart Koessler, Robert J. Steinfeld, Stanley L. Engerman, Karl Heinz Roth, Jonathan Grossman, Larian Angelo, Fred Krissman, Ralph Shlomowitz, Joan Casanovas, Lyman L. Johnson, Jose de Souza Martins, David McCreery, Mario Pastore, Marcel van der Linden, Marta Craveri, Wendy K. Olsen, Ian J. Kerr, Paul E. Baak, Raymond Markey, Doug Munro. The Editors: Tom Brass (1946) is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and formerly Director of Studies in the Social and Political Sciences at Queen's College, Cambridge. He is an editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Senior Research Fellow at the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam, Professor of Social Movement History, Amsterdam University, and Executive Editor of the International Review of Social History.