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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmmanuel BergerEmmanuel Berger is Marie Curie Fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He led several research projects at the Université Paris 1-Sorbonne, CESDIP (CNRS), Université de Montréal, National Archives (Belgium), European University Institute and University of Leicester. His main research fields are the history of criminal justice during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire and the history of popular justice in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. He published Le tribunal correctionnel de Bruxelles sous le Directoire (Archives générales du Royaume, 2002) and La justice pénale sous la Révolution. Les enjeux d'un modèle judiciaire liberal (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2006). He edited L'acculturation des modèles policiers et judiciaires français en Belgique et aux Pays-Bas (1795–1815) (Archives générales du Royaume, 2010).Heinz-Gerhard HauptHeinz-Gerhard Haupt is Professor of History at Bielefeld University. He has taught in several universities: Bremen, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales, Lyon 2, European University Institute and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. He has published books and articles dedicated to the history of nationalism (nineteenth and twentieth centuries), the “petite bourgeoisie” in Europe (nineteenth and twentieth centuries), the history of consumption, the history of political violence and methodology in comparative and transnational history. He recently co-edited Control of Violence: Historical and International Perspectives on Violence in Modern Societies (2010) and Comparative and Transnational History: Central European Approaches and New Perspectives (2012).