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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Mass Culture and Divided Audiences: Cinema and Social Change in Inter-War Germany*I would like to thank the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation for generously supporting the research on which this article is based. My thanks also go to Karl Christian Führer, Elizabeth Harvey and Matthew Hilton for their helpful comments on an earlier draft.

By Ross Corey  

Past and Present, Vol. 193, Iss. 1, 2006-11 ,pp. : 157-195

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Pilgrims’ Progress: The Business of the Hajj*The research and writing of this article has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. I would also like to thank the members of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University for their comments on an earlier version. An earlier version was also presented at the ‘Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges Conference’ (Washington DC, 12–15 February 2003), sponsored by the American Historical Association. Peter Yurkosky prepared the map.

By Miller Michael B.  

Past and Present, Vol. 191, Iss. 1, 2006-05 ,pp. : 189-228

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The March to Peterloo: Politics and Festivity in Late Georgian England*I am grateful to John Belchem, Emma Griffin, Frank O’Gorman and Paul Pickering for helpful comments on earlier drafts, and to the participants of the York eighteenth-century studies seminar, the Manchester University history seminar and the ‘British History in the Long Eighteenth Century’ seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, for critical discussions. The research for this article was assisted by a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship, held at the University of Manchester, in 2000–1.

By Poole Robert  

Past and Present, Vol. 192, Iss. 1, 2006-08 ,pp. : 109-153

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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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