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Preface The research and the writing of this book were greatly facilitated by generous support from several foundations, and I am deeply grateful for all their assistance. Grants from the Midgard Foundation and the Social Science Research Foundation enabled me to spend a year in Spain and in Colombia. An American Philosophical Society grant took me to Bogota again. A good deal of the writing was done during a year's leave of absence with funds provided by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Research Committee of the Graduate School and the Ibero-American Studies Committee, both of the University of Wisconsin, generously provided several travel grants. I have received much assistance and unfailing courtesy in all the libraries and archives where I have studied. I would like to express my appreciation to the directors and the staffs of the following institutions: the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin, the Archivo Historico Nacional (Bogota), the Academia Colombiana de Historia, the Biblioteca Nacional (Bogota), the private collection of Jose Manuel Restrepo (Bogota), the Archivo de la Notaria in the Casa de Cultura (Socorro), the Archivo Parroquial (Socorro), the Archivo Historico del Departmento de Antioquia, the Archivo Nacional de Historia (Quito), the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana, and the Archivo General de lndias (Seville). Among the directors and the staffs of those institutions a special word of thanks goes to Louis Kaplan, Joseph Treyz, Suzanne Hodgman, Carlos Restrepo Canal, Alberto Lee Lopez, O.F.M., Alberto Miramon, Eduardo Santa, dona Pilar Moreno de Angel, dona Adiela Cajiao B., the late monseigneur Jose Restrepo Posada, dona Carmen Camacho de Villareal, the late Jorge Garces, Elfrieda Lang, and dona Rosario Parra Cala. This book owes much to my many Colombian friends. I am profoundly appreciative of the honor the Academia Colombiana de Historia bestowed on me in 1972 when they elected me a corresponding member. I cherish the friendship of its distinguished president, Dr. Abel Cruz Santos. lowe to Horacio Rodriguez Plata, a former president of the Academy and an illustrious son of Socorro, an extensive debt of gratitude for the liberality and good-fellowship with which he has shared with me his broad and deep knowledge of the history of his native land. Among the other academicians to xiii Preface The research and the writing of this book were greatly facilitated by generous support from several foundations, and I am deeply grateful for all their assistance. Grants from the Midgard Foundation and the Social Science Research Foundation enabled me to spend a year in Spain and in Colombia. An American Philosophical Society grant took me to Bogota again. A good deal of the writing was done during a year's leave of absence with funds provided by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Research Committee of the Graduate School and the Ibero-American Studies Committee, both of the University of Wisconsin, generously provided several travel grants. I have received much assistance and unfailing courtesy in all the libraries and archives where I have studied. I would like to express my appreciation to the directors and the staffs of the following institutions: the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin, the Archivo Historico Nacional (Bogota), the Academia Colombiana de Historia, the Biblioteca Nacional (Bogota), the private collection of Jose Manuel Restrepo (Bogota), the Archivo de la Notaria in the Casa de Cultura (Socorro), the Archivo Parroquial (Socorro), the Archivo Historico del Departmento de Antioquia, the Archivo Nacional de Historia (Quito), the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana, and the Archivo General de Indias (Seville). Among the directors and the staffs of those institutions a special word of thanks goes to Louis Kaplan, Joseph Treyz, Suzanne Hodgman, Carlos Restrepo Canal, Alberto Lee Lopez, O.F.M., Alberto Miramon, Eduardo Santa, dona Pilar Moreno de Angel, dona Adiela Cajiao B., the late monseigneur Jose Restrepo Posada, dona Carmen Camacho de Villareal, the late Jorge Garces, Elfrieda Lang, and dona Rosario Parra Cala. This book owes much to my many Colombian friends. I am profoundly appreciative of the honor the Academia Colombiana de Historia bestowed on me in 1972 when they elected me a corresponding member. I cherish the friendship of its distinguished president, Dr. Abel Cruz Santos. lowe to Horacio Rodriguez Plata, a former president of the Academy and an illustrious son...