jeremy adelman is the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Culture and Civilization at Princeton University, where he is also the Director of the Program in Latin American Studies. Among his recent books are Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (Stanford Univ. Press, 1999) and the coauthored Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present (W. W. Norton, 2001).
lauren benton is Professor of History at New York University. Her book Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002) won the 2003 Book Award of the World History Association and the 2003 James Willard Hurst Award of the Law and Society Association.
susan besse is Associate Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and directs the City College Fellowships Program for undergraduates seeking...
