Notes on ContributorsJohn Ashworth is Professor of American History at the University of
Nottingham, having previously taught at the Universities of East Anglia and
Hull.
He is the author of Agrarians and Aristocrats Party Political Ideologyin the United States, 1837–1846 (1983) and of
Slavery, Capitalism and Politicsin the Antebellum Republic.
The first volume,
Commerce and Compromise,1820–1850, appeared in 1996, and the second,
Towards the Civil War,1850–1861, in 2008.
Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor
of American History at OxfordUniversity and a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, and from January 2010 will be President of Corpus Christi College. He teaches and writes on American religion, politics, and society in the nineteenth century and is the author of
Transatlantic Revivalism Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America,1790–1865 (1978) and
Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (1993).
In 2004 he won the Lincoln Prize for his analytical political biography
Lincoln(2003), published in North America as
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power(2006). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006.
Bruce Collins is Professor of Modern History, Sheffield Hallam University.
Educated
at Cambridge, he held a Harkness fellowship in 1972–74, and was formerly Dean of Humanities at Ripon and York (an affiliated college of the
University of Leeds, Dean and Deputy Principal of University College,
Scarborough, and Professor of International History at the University of Buckingham. He has written
The Origins of America’s Civil War (1981)
and
White Society in Antebellum America (1985), as well as numerous articles and essays on the sin, for example,
Civil War History, Georgia HistoricalQuarterly, Historical Journal, History Today, Journal of American Studies, OhioHistory, and the
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
His next book is War and Empire The Expansion of Britain, 1790–1830 (forthcoming).
Robert Cook is Professor of American History at the University of Sussex.
He is the author of several books on nineteenth and twentieth-century history, including
Baptism of Fire The Republican Party in Iowa, 1838–1878(1994) and
Sweet Land of Liberty The African-American Struggle for CivilRights in the Twentieth Century (1998) and, most recently,
TroubledCommemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965, which was shortlisted for the Lincoln Prize. He is writing a biography of US senator
William Pitt Fessenden.
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