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Contributors

ernst hans van der beugel, born in 1918 in Amsterdam, has a master's degree in economics from Amsterdam University. He served, successively, as secretary to the Dutch cabinet, head of the office of the Marshall Plan and of the OEEC, and director general of economic and military affairs. He was also state secretary for foreign affairs and roving ambassador of the Netherlands government. From 1959 to 1963 he was executive vice-president and president of KLM. In 1965 he received his Ph.D., cum laude, from Leiden University, where he is presently professor of international relations. Professor van der Beugel is also chairman of the International Institute for Stategic Studies in London.

owen dudley edwards was educated at Belvedere College and at University College in Dublin. He was a graduate student in history at Johns Hopkins University (1959-1963) while serving as an American correspondent for the Irish Times. He has taught in the United States at the University of Oregon, California State University, and the University of South Carolina. He has also taught at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Burke and Hare, P.G. Wodehouse, and The Mind of an Activist: James Connolly, and co-author of Celtic Nationalism.

frank freidel is Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington and Charles Warren Professor of American History, emeritus, at Harvard University. He was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University from 1955 to 1956 and has taught at a number of other institutions. He has twice lectured at the Salzburg Seminar. He is a past president of the Organization of American Historians and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of a number of books, including Our Country's Presidents and America in the Twentieth Century, and is editor of the Harvard Guide to American History. His major work is a multi-volume biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

james h. hutson received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1964. He is currently executive secretary, Council of Scholars, the Library of Congress. He is the author of Pennsylvania Politics, 1745-

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1770 (Princeton, 1972) and John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution (Lexington, 1980), which was awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize for 1981 by the Society for French Historical Studies. His most recent work is Creativity: A Continuing Inventory of Knowledge (Washington, D.C., 1981). Dr. Hutson also directs the Historical Publications Office in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.

michael kammen is Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council, and the board of trustees of the New York State Historical Association. He is the author of People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1973), Colonial New York - A History (1975), and A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination (1978), and editor of The Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States (1980).

lawrence s. kaplan, who received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951, is University Professor of History at Kent State University. He has also served as Fulbright Lecturer at the Universities of Bonn, Louvain, and Nice, as Visiting Research Scholar and Lecturer at the University of London, and as Visiting Professor at the European University Institute at Florence. He is the author of Jefferson and France (New Haven, 1967) and The American Revolution and a ‘Candid World’ (Kent, Ohio, 1977); editor of Colonies into Nation: American Diplomacy, 1763-1800 (New York, 1972); and co-author of Culture and Diplomacy: The American Experience (New York, 1977).

robert r. palmer is emeritus professor of history at Yale University. Born in Chicago, he studied at the University of Chicago and at Cornell University. He served on the faculty at Princeton University and has been adjunct professor at the University of Michigan. His main interest has been the French Revolution, and his most important work is The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, in two volumes (Princeton, 1959, 1964).

james c. riley, an associate professor at Indiana University, is the author of International Government Finance and the Amsterdam Market, 1740-1815 (1980); ‘The Dutch Economy after 1650: Decline or Growth?’ in the Journal of European Economic History; and The Medicine of the Environment in Europe and North America, 1660-

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1800. Professor Riley is working on a study of the money supply in eighteenth-century Europe.

herbert h. rowen received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1951. He has taught at Brandeis University, the University of Iowa, Elmira College, the University of California, and the University of Wisconsin; at present he is professor of history at Rutgers University. He is a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Division of Letters. His books include The Ambassador Prepares for War: The Dutch Embassy of Arnauld de Pomponne (1669-1671) (1957), John de Witt: Grand Pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672 (1978), and The King's State: Proprietary Dynasticism in Early Modern France (1980). He has translated into English works of John Huizinga, Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, and Jacques Godechot.

jan willem schulte nordholt, born 1920 in Zwolle, received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Amsterdam in 1951. Since 1963 he has occupied a chair for American history and culture at Leiden University. He has been a guest professor at Brooklyn College and at the University of Michigan and has published many books on American history in his mother tongue. His special interest in recent years has been the historical relation between the Netherlands and the United States. An English translation of his latest book is being published by the University of North Carolina Press under the title The Dutch Republic and American Independence.

alfred van staden, born 1942, studied political science at the University of Amsterdam and wrote his doctorate thesis on the role of the Netherlands in NATO. He is currently professor of international relations at Leiden University. His main areas of interest are Dutch foreign policy, the making of foreign policy in general, and strategic problems and arms control. He is co-author of several books dealing with domestic sources of foreign policy and has written on a variety of international topics. Professor van Staden is a member of the Netherlands Foreign Ministry Advisory Committee on Problems of Disarmament and International Security and Peace. He teaches international relations at the Dutch War College in The Hague.

robert p. swierenga, Ph.D., is professor of history at Kent State University and managing editor of Social Science History. A specialist in Dutch emigration and settlement in North America, he was awarded the Fulbright - Hays Silver Opportunity Research Scholarship in the Netherlands and was made a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of more than fifty articles and of the

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following books: Pioneer and Profits: Land Speculation on the Iowa Frontier (1968), Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa (1976), Quantification in American History: Theory and Research (1970), and Beyond the Civil War Synthesis: Political Essays of the Civil War Era (1975). He is presently preparing a book on Dutch immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century.

james tanis is Director of Libraries and Rufus Johnson Professor of Religion at Bryn Mawr College. He received a doctor's degree in theology from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His field of specialization is the interplay of Dutch and American ideas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is the author of Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies (The Hague, 1967) and of a number of articles that have appeared in scholarly journals.

henri and barbara van der zee are journalist-writers who live in London. He was born in the Netherlands and in 1955 joined De Telegraaf. In 1967 he became its correspondent in London, where he met his future wife, Barbara Griggs, a Fleet Street fashion writer. In partnership, Henri and Barbara van der Zee have written two historical works: William and Mary, a biography of the Dutch Stadtholder-King and his English wife; and A Sweet and Alien Land, the story of Dutch New York. Both books were published in Britain, the United States, and the Netherlands. Barbara's history of herbal medicine, Green Pharmacy, has been published in Britain and the United States, and Henri's documentary study of occupied Holland in the last months of World War II, The Hunger Winter, has been published in Britain and the Netherlands.