Pedro Luengo is professor of the history of art at the Universidad de Sevilla. He is author of Global Architecture for Eighteenth-Century Beijing: Building Qing Enlightenments and Manila, 1645 and coeditor of From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean: Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories.

Gene Allen Smith is professor of history at Texas Christian University. He is author of The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812, coeditor of From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean: Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories, coauthor of In Harm’s Way: A History of the American Military Experience, and coeditor of Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s–1820s, among other works.