Jamie Bronstein is a professor of British and US history at New Mexico State University, teaching the period from about 1485 to the present on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800–1862 (Stanford, 1999); Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Stanford, 2008); Transatlantic Radical: John Francis Bray (Merlin, 2009); and, with Andrew Harris, Empire, State and Society: Modern Britain, 1830–Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).