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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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 Body and Socialism: Dora Russell in the 1920s*Amy Black, Kathryn McPherson, Chris Waters and Martin Francis offered invaluable comments on earlier drafts and much encouragement, for which I am deeply grateful. I would also like to thank Marcus Collins, Stephen Heathorn, Deborah Gorham and Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska for suggesting particular references, and the archivists of the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, and the Bertrand Russell Archive, Hamilton, for their assistance. Financial support for research was generously provided by the Institute of European Studies, Toronto, and the European Commission.

By Brooke Stephen  

Past and Present, Vol. 189, Iss. 1, 2005-11 ,pp. : 147-177

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Resurrecting by Numbers in Eighteenth-Century England*I wish to thank Alexandra Cook, Lorraine Daston, Marina Frasca Spada Gianna Pomata, Skuli Sigurdsson, Fernando Vidal, and especially Joseph Berkovitz, Colin Jones and Simon Schaffer for helpful comments and suggestions. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at the Department of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Northumbria at Newcastle. For support, I am grateful to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Wellcome Trust.

By Dacome Lucia  

Past and Present, Vol. 193, Iss. 1, 2006-11 ,pp. : 73-110

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Business in Pictures: Representations of Railway Enterprise in the Satirical Press in Britain 1845–1870*This article was first presented as a paper at the ‘British History, 1815–1945’ seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in 2003. I am grateful for comments received on that occasion, and I also wish to thank Hugh Cunningham, Emily Payne and Charlotte Sleigh for their remarks on subsequent drafts. Many of the cartoons consulted for this article were located with the aid of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature at the University of Kent. My research was funded by an Economic History Society Postdoctoral Fellowship held at the Institute of Historical Research, 2002–3.

By Taylor James  

Past and Present, Vol. 189, Iss. 1, 2005-11 ,pp. : 111-145

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