Perspectives from the Past: Primary Sources in Western Civilizations: From the Age of Absolutism through Contemporary Times (Third Edition)  (Vol. 2)
James M. Brophy is associate  professor of modern European history at the  University of Delaware. He received his B.A.  from Vassar College and did his graduate  training at the Universität Tübingen and Indiana University, where he specialized in the social  and political history of nineteenth-century  Europe. He is the author of Capitalism,  Politics, and Railroads in Prussia,  1830—1870 (1998).Joshua Cole (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on gender and the history of population sciences, colonial violence, and the politics of memory in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, Germany, and Algeria. His first book was The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000).Steven Epstein teaches history                 at the University of Kansas. He  was educated at                  Swarthmore  College, St. John’s College    (Cambridge University), and Harvard College,                   where he developed his  interests in medieval                     social and economic history. He is the author of        Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and                    Human Bondage in  Italy (2000), Genoa  and the Genoese 958—1528 (1996).John Robertson received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. in ancient history from the  University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in the  social and economic history of the ancient Near  East, Professor Robertson has published several  articles in major scholarly journals and  contributed articles to such major reference  works as the recently published  Civilizations of the Ancient Near  East.Thomas Max Safley is associate  professor of history at the University of  Pennsylvania. A specialist in the economic and  social history of early modern Europe, his  particular research interests include the  history of the Reformation, the family, charity, work, and business. In addition to numerous  articles and reviews, Professor Safley is the  author of Let No Man Put Asunder: The  Control of Marriage in the German Southwest,  1550—1620 (1984) and Charity and  Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern  Augsburg (1996).