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ix Acknowledgments I am greatly indebted to the many people and institutions that have contributed to aspects of this work over the last decade and more. Financial support for research in Spain in 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, and 2001 was provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’Universities , the Augustana College Research Foundation, the Berkman Faculty Development Fund of Carnegie Mellon University, and the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. In the early stages of the project, I also benefited from a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for European Studies at Stanford University. Portions of this work have been shared with many audiences, and I have profited from the lively discussions that followed my often tentative presentations . For their critical and encouraging comments, I especially owe thanks to members of the Departments of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Maynooth, to members of the Departments of History and Modern Languages at Marshall University, and to the participants in a colloquium that was entitled “Questions of Identity in the New Europe” and was sponsored by the Remarque Institute and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University. My thinking about the Expo has been shaped in countless ways by conversations that I have had with friends and colleagues. Without the stimulating engagement of Paul Eiss, Peter Kivisto, Judith Modell, Roger Rouse, Donald Sutton, and Patrick Wilson concerning many issues pertinent to the emergence of a “new Spain” and a “new Europe,” this work would have been much impoverished . Deborah Cahalen, James Fernandez, Montserrat Miller, and anonymous reviewers for SUNY Press gave me valuable suggestions and encouragement, as did Thomas Wilson, Editor of the SUNY series in National Identities, and Michael Rinella, Acquisitions Editor at SUNY Press. Several Expo officials in Seville spoke to me under conditions of anonymity, and I appreciate their help. I am especially grateful to Alfredo Jiménez of the University of Seville for his indispensable insights into the workings of the Expo, and I apologize to him for being such an obtuse and unreliable interlocutor. All English translations of Spanish sources are my own. I thank Andrea Cuellar for preparing the figures and maps for the text. Without the support of many friends in Aracena and Seville, this book could not have been written. My heartfelt gratitude goes especially to Gloria Roncero Carretero, Felisa Vázquez and Luis Dominguez, Rafael Corral and Manuela Vázquez, Gloria Vázquez, Maria Luisa Sánchez Ortega, Andres Sánchez Ortega, Manuel Fernández Carmona and Mari Carmen Parente, and Berta Suárez Arias and Lino Juloa Núñez. Sharon Keller Maddox’s care and hard work have been crucial at every stage of the research and writing, and Zack helped me see the Expo through a child’s eyes. I dedicate this work to them and to our “family” in Aracena. x Acknowledgments ...

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