Notes on Contributors

Editorial
David Parker

Rising Tides
The Rise of the Bourgeoisie and the Failure to Reform the Bourbon State, 1763-92
Gwynne Lewis

The Absolutist State of Eighteenth-Century France
Modern Bureaucracy or Feudal Bricolage?
Stephen Miller

Revolution or Jacquerie?
Rethinking Peasant Insurrection in 1789
Peter McPhee

Perspectives
Forum on 1688
Steve Pincus, John Callow and Bill Speck

Books to Remember
Tom Nairn, The Enchanted Glass

Reviews