Steven C. A. Pincus (PhD, Harvard University) is professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650–1668 (1996), as well as numerous essays on the cultural, political, and intellectual history of early modern Britain, and he is the coeditor of A Nation Transformed? England after the Restoration with Alan Craig Houston, and of the forthcoming collection The Public Sphere in Early Modern England with Peter Lake.