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Michael Asch is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. His research on relations between First Nations people and Canada has appeared in Kinship and the Drum Dance in a Northern Dene Community (University of Alberta Press, 1988), Home and Native Land: Aboriginal Rights and the Canadian Constitution (Methuen, 1984) and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada (editor, University of British Columbia Press, 1998). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Richard Bellamy is Director, School of Public Policy, University College London, Academic Director, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), and co-editor, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. His main books include Modern Italian Social Theory: Ideology and Politics from Pareto to the Present (Stanford University Press, 1987), Liberalism and Modern Society: An Historical Argument (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992) and Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise (Routledge, 1999). He is the editor of The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought (with Terence Ball, Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Robin Blackburn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, having studied and taught at the LSE and Oxford in the 1960s. He has been a member of the editorial committee of New Left Review since 1962 and was editor from 1981 to 1999. He has been consulting editor of Verso since 1970. Research interests include comparative investigations of slavery and of contemporary financial institutions. His publications include The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern (Verso, 1997), The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery (Verso, 1988) and Banking on Death. Or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions (Verso, 2002).

Martin Bulmer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and Director of the ESRC Social Survey Question Bank. He also edits Ethnic and Racial Studies, the international journal published by Routledge. His main research interests are in the methodology of quantitative and qualitative social research, the history of sociology and of social research, and the study of ethnicity and race.

Eamonn Carrabine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. His teaching and research interests lie in the fields of criminology and cultural studies. His books include Crime in Modern Britain (with Pamela Cox, Maggy Lee and Nigel South, Oxford University Press, 2002), Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (with Paul Iganski, Maggy Lee, Ken Plummer and Nigel South, Routledge, 2004) and Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (Ashgate, 2004). He is currently working on a book on Crime and the Media: Interrogating Representations of Transgression in Popular Culture.

David Chalcraft is Professor of Classical Sociology, University of Derby, and Visiting Fellow at Lancaster University. He has published widely in the area of Weber studies and is the editor of The Protestant Ethic Debate: Webers Replies to His Critics, 19071910 (with Austin Harrington, Liverpool University Press, 2001). He is co-founder of the international journal Max Weber Studies and editor of the monograph series Rethinking Classical Sociology (Ashgate Press).

James J. Chriss is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University. His main areas of interest are sociological theory, crime and delinquency, the sociology of police and medical sociology. His forthcoming book