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Notes on Contributors
John 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 Ideology
in the United States, 1837–1846 (1983) and of Slavery, Capitalism and Politics
in 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 Oxford
University 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 Historical
Quarterly, Historical Journal, History Today, Journal of American Studies, Ohio
History, 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 Civil
Rights in the Twentieth Century (1998) and, most recently, Troubled
Commemoration: 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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