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xiii A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s Any project in the works as long as this one will invariably accumulate much indebtedness. As I take this opportunity to consider the debts I have accrued along the way, I find it personally humbling and professionally eye-opening to realize the amount of support from individuals and institutions that is necessary to bring a project like this to fruition. Researching , writing, and revising are solitary efforts, but they only occur because of highly collective networks of support. In a reverse chronology, I open with those who most recently helped to make this possible. The first is my home institution, Furman University , which granted me a yearlong sabbatical award for 2011–2012 that made time available for the final round of revisions. Since completing the initial version of this manuscript as a dissertation at the University of California , Santa Barbara, in 1997, I have worked steadily but intermittently over the years on revising it into a book. Meanwhile, I was drawn into various other projects on Salvadoran history. In fact, I was embarking on yet another of those for my sabbatical when Scott Mainwaring, editor of the series in which this book is being published, contacted me to tell me he had been working on a new study in comparative politics, and El Salvador was one of his cases. He suggested I submit my work to the University of Notre Dame Press. As a result, I directed a portion of my sabbatical leave towards completing the revisions to this project. I would like to thank Scott for his support and for encouraging me to set aside another new endeavor and focus on this one. The research for this project was done under the auspices of various institutions and organizations. The Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere from the American Historical Association funded my exploratory trip to the Salvadoran archives. The xiv Acknowledgments subsequent yearlong trip was made possible by a Fulbright grant, which also included trips to Moscow and London. The writing of the initial version of this study, my dissertation, was done with grant support from the history department and the graduate division at UC Santa Barbara, and from the Academy for Educational Development. All of the publication projects that I have undertaken since arriving at Furman have informed this project and made it better and more contextualized . Thus, the research endeavors for those projects are somewhat synonymous with this one. Fulbright, once again, supported an extended research trip to El Salvador in 2005, and the Research and Professional Growth Committee at Furman has funded multiple short-term trips to El Salvador since my arrival in 1998. A grant from the Associated Colleges of the South’s (ACS) Faculty Renewal Program funded a research trip to El Salvador. Follow-up research in Moscow was made possible by the ACS’s Global Partners Project–Central Europe and Russia Task Force. My participation on Furman’s Latin America study abroad program has also been a valuable asset to this project. Between 2004 and 2012, it kept me returning to El Salvador more or less annually. While my mission on those programs was to teach students, the necessity of creating opportunities for them provided me with many unexpected contacts and research threads that I later followed on my own. I extend special thanks to Hector Lindo-Fuentes, my coauthor on Modernizing Minds in El Salvador and Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador . He has been with me since the start of my graduate career and has been a continual sounding board and source of support. So too has Knut Walter, historian of El Salvador, whom I first met on my initial research trip to El Salvador in 1993. I would not have made it this far without the two of them. I would also like to thank other scholars, most of them Salvadoranists, who have helped me along the way as collaborators, commenters, sounding boards, or research companions, including Aldo Lauria-Santiago, Virginia Tilley, Michael Schroeder, Carlos Gregorio López Bernal, Paul Almeida, Jeff Gould, Ellen Moodie, Brandt Pederson, Alfredo Ramírez, María Eugenia López, Aldo García Guevara, Rafael Lara-Martínez, Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, Leigh Binford, Bob Holden, Henrik Rønsbo, Jan Suter, Patricia Alvarenga Venutolo, James Mahoney, Héctor Pérez Bri- Acknowledgments xv gnoli, and René Aguiluz. Thanks also to members of...

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