Dr. Joshua H. Cole is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Specializing in the social and cultural history of France since the Revolution of 1789, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author and co-author of many popular history books like The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (2000), and Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture.