Author Biography
Anne Goldgar, Ph.D. (1990) Harvard, is Lecturer in Early Modern History at King's College London. She works on 17th- and 18th-century social and cultural history and is the author of Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters 1680-1750 (1995) and Tulipmania (forthcoming, 2004). Robert Frost, Ph.D. (1990) University of London, is Reader in Early Modern History at King's College London. He publishes on Poland-Lithuania and the history of warfare in the early modern period, including The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in North-eastern Europe 1558-1721 (2000).