RICHARD MIDDLETON was for many years head of the American Studies department at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of several books, including The Bells of Victory: The PittNewcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years' War, 17571762 (1985) and Pontiac's War: Its Causes, Course and Consequences, 17631765 (2007). Now retired, Middleton is currently working on a book about the American War of Independence. ANNE LOMBARD is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos. She is the author of Making Manhood: Growing Up Male in Colonial New England (2003). Her current research examines riots and other forms of collective violence by white men in British America during the eighteenth century.