Geoffrey Symcox is professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles and general editor of the Repertorium Columbianum, a multivolume series of original sources dealing with different aspects of the Columbian voyages. Professor Symcox received his PhD from UCLA in 1967 and works in early modern European history, up to and including the French Revolution. His books include The Crisis of French Sea Power 1688–1697 (1974) and Victor Amadeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State 1675–1730 (1983).