Nature, Culture and Conservation in France and her Colonies 1840–1940Parts of this article were presented at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in April 2001; the French Cultural History Workshop, Humanities Center, Stanford University in October 2001; and at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London in February 2002. I very much benefited from the comments that I received in these venues. I also wish to thank Laura Lee Downs, Colin Jones, Herman Lebovics and Sanjay Subrahmanyam for their helpful comments on earlier drafts. This work was supported financially by grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and by an Izaak Walton Killam Fellowship in 2001–2.

By Ford Caroline  

Past and Present, Vol. 183, Iss. 1, 2004-05 ,pp. : 173-198

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Mind the Gap: The Perception and Reality of Communist Sabotage of French War Production during the Phoney War 1939–1940*I wish to thank the following people for comments and criticisms on earlier drafts: Andrew Barros, John Cairns, Alexandra Harvey, Meredith Hindley, Martin Horn, Peter Jackson, Ken Mouré and Martin Thomas. A version was presented to the Association des étudiants en histoire, Université Laval, and to the Society for French Historical Studies, Annual Conference, Toronto, April 2002. Research for this article was made possible by financial support from the Département d’histoire and from the Faculté des lettres, Université Laval.

By Imlay Talbot  

Past and Present, Vol. 189, Iss. 1, 2005-11 ,pp. : 179-224

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Renaissance German Cosmographers and the Naming of America*The author would like to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the John Carter Brown Library and Washington University for research funding, and Rocío Cortés, Peter Kastor, Jeri McIntosh and Mack Walker for comments on earlier drafts of this article.

By Johnson Christine R.  

Past and Present, Vol. 191, Iss. 1, 2006-05 ,pp. : 3-43

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The Transformation of British Public Politics After the First World War*I would like to thank Laura Beers, David Dutton, Susan Pedersen, Andrew Thompson, Philip Williamson and the participants at seminars in Berkeley, Harvard and Manchester for their helpful comments and advice on earlier versions of this paper. I would also like to acknowledge the generous support of the British Academy through their Research Leave Scheme, the Economic and Social Research Council (Research Grant ESRC RES-000-22-0345), and the University of Liverpool through their Research Development Fund.

By Lawrence Jon  

Past and Present, Vol. 190, Iss. 1, 2006-02 ,pp. : 185-216

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The Making of a Peasant King in Colonial Western India: The Case of Ranchod Vira*Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. I appreciate the comments of the participants of both seminars. I am extremely grateful to Chris Bayly, Bina Parekh, Ken Pomeranz and Bin Wong for a valuable reading of an earlier draft and for their advice, suggestions and criticism. I would also like to thank David Arnold, Vinita Chaturvedi, David Hardiman, Douglas Haynes, Rosalind O’Hanlon, Peter Robb and David Washbrook for their comments on this article.

By Chaturvedi Vinayak  

Past and Present, Vol. 192, Iss. 1, 2006-08 ,pp. : 155-185

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