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  • Contributors

Paul Gootenberg is Professor of History and the Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Stony Brook University. His previous books are Between Silver and Guano: Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru (1989), Imagining Development: Economic Thought in Peru’s “Fictitious Prosperity” of Guano, 1840–1880 (1993), and, as editor, Cocaine: Global Histories (1999). His current interests are drugs in history and the social sciences and historical practice.

Laura Gotkowitz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She is the author of the forthcoming book entitled Within the Boundaries of Equality: Citizenship, Race, and Nation. Bolivia, 1880-1953.

Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence, and Honorary President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). He has authored many essays and books on the history of Italian and European populations and has recently turned to issues related to postcontact demography in the Americas. Among his recent work: A Concise History of World Population (2001), The Population of Europe: A History (1999), and with Gustavo De Santis (editor), Population and Poverty in Developing Countries (2000).

Charles F. Walker is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840 (1999) and the editor of two books in Spanish. He is currently writing a book on the 1746 earthquake.

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