jonathan barth is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University, in affiliation with the Center for Political Thought and Leadership and the School for Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. He specializes in the history of money and banking, with auxiliary interests in politics, culture, and the history of ideas. His article, “Reconstructing Mercantilism: Consensus and Conflict in British Imperial Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, April 2016. He is currently completing a book-length manuscript tentatively entitled “The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in the Seventeenth Century.” Jonathan.Barth@asu.edu

adrian brettle is a Lecturer in American History at Tufts University and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of History, Rowan University. After spending many years in the telecommunications industry, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2014. Brettle’s research interests include the American Civil War, the Confederacy and the Old South, nineteenth-century British political history, and the global history of the Civil War era. His publications include essays in The Tory World: A Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, ed. Jeremy Black (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), and The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History: How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain, 1660–2000, ed. William Mulligan and Brendan Simms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Brettle’s book manuscript, Fortunes of War: Confederate Expansionist Ambitions During the American Civil War, is currently under formal review at the University of Virginia Press. brettle@rowan.edu

henry c. clark is a Visiting Professor in the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College. He is the author of La Rochefoucauld and the Language of Unmasking in Seventeenth-Century France (1994) and Compass of Society: Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France (2007), and the editor and/or translator of Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism Before Adam Smith (2003) and Montesquieu: My Thoughts (2012). His latest book is Encyclopedic Liberty: Political Articles from the Dictionary of Diderot and d’Alembert (2016), an edited volume co-translated with Christine D. Henderson. His current book project bears the provisional title Honor Management: The Passions, the Interests, and the Making of the Modern World. henry.c.clark@dartmouth.edu

brian domitrovic is Chair of the History Department at Sam Houston State University. For 2015–16, he was the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity, coauthor with Lawrence Kudlow of JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity,” and editor of The Pillars of Reagonomics: A Generation of Wisdom from Arthur Laffer and the Supply-Side Revolutionaries. He writes a weekly column at Forbes.com under the byline Past & Present. bfd001@shsu.edu

steven pincus is the Bradford Durfee Professor of History at Yale University, specializing in the history of Britain and the British Atlantic World. His two most recent monographs are 1688: The First Modern Revolution and The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders’ Case for an Activist Government. Pincus is completing a book on the origins of the British Empire (c. 1650–1784), which offers a new interpretation of the American Revolution and the origins of British India, and a book on the American Revolution in global context. He is also working with Jim Robinson of the University of Chicago on a book tentatively entitled The Divergence of Britain: The State and the Making of the First Industrial Revolution. steven.pincus@yale.edu

paul a. rahe is the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is Professor of History. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992), Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic (2008), The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge (2015), and The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy (2016). prahe@hillsdale.edu