Emma Rothschild is director of the Centre for History and Economics at King’s College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor of History at Harvard University. Recent publications include Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2001), "Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the 18th Century Provinces" (Modern Intellectual History, 2004) and “Real, Pretended or Imaginary Dangers” (The New York Review of Books, 2004). She is working on two new projects, about the French colonies in the 1760s and about the East India Company and the American Revolution.