War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830

The imperial warfare of the period 1770-1830, including the American wars of independence and the Napoleonic wars, affected every continent. Covering southern India, the Caribbean, North and South America, and southern Africa, this volume explores the impact of revolutionary wars and how people's identities were shaped by their experiences.

RICHARD BESSEL is Professor of Twentieth Century History at the University of York, UK. Previously he taught at the Open University and has held visiting chairs at the Universities of Bielefeld and Freiburg. His most recent books are Germany 1945: From War to Peace, and (ed. With Claudia Haake), Removing Peoples: Forced Removal in the Modern World, both published in 2009.

NICHOLAS GUYATT is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York, UK. He specializes in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Intellectual and Political History. He is the author of Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876 (Cambridge).

JANE RENDALL taught for many years at the University of York, in the History Department, the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Centre for Women's Studies, and is now an Honorary Fellow there. She has published widely in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women's and gender history.