Jeff Horn is Professor of History at Manhattan College. He is the author or editor of four books: Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution (2010), edited with Leonard N. Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith, The Industrial Revolution: Milestones in Business History (2007), The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750 1830 (2006), and Qui parle pour la nation? Les elections et les elus de la Champagne meridionale, 1765 1830 (2004). Jeff Horn was president of the Western Society for French History in 2013 14. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Endow...