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Acknowledgments In writing an interdisciplinary book, one relies even more than usual on the generosity and support of scholars in a wide range of fields. Exotic Nation has benefited from the expertise of Jodi Bilinkoff, Cammy Brothers, Renata Holod, Fernando Martı́nez Nespral, Gridley McKimSmith , Daniel Nemser, Nichole Prescott, Larry Silver, and Amanda Wunder, who helped guide me in my study of art, architecture, and material culture. Every chapter was improved by the combined eagle eye of my Works-in-Progress group: Kevin Platt, Paul Saint-Amour, Maurice Samuels , and Emily Steiner, to whom I am profoundly grateful. Meredith Ray kindly vetted my translations from the Italian. I also owe thanks to the many friends who read portions of the book and gave me their valuable suggestions: Roger Abrahams, Laura Bass, Marina Brownlee, Israel Burshatin , Román de la Campa, Karina Galperı́n, Karla Mallette, Yolanda Martı́nez-San Miguel, Teófilo Ruiz, Michael Solomon, and Ronald Surtz. Barbara Weissberger, who read the entire manuscript for Penn Press and made wonderful recommendations, has been a most generous reviewer. Meeting Marı́a Judith Feliciano and benefiting from her expertise on every page has been one of the great pleasures of this project. I owe her a particular debt, which my dedication can only begin to acknowledge. I dedicate the book also to Javier Irigoyen-Garcı́a, as a small token of my appreciation . Our work together on this project, and on his, has made him a most treasured interlocutor. I have been fortunate in working with other fine research assistants: Brooke Stafford, Madera Allan, and Cyrus Mulready. Audiences at Penn, the University of London, Cornell, Stanford, Princeton, and SUNY Stonybrook helped refine the book’s arguments. Jerry Singerman, at Penn Press, has been an exemplary editor, and his assistant, Mariana Martı́nez, unfailingly patient. As always, I thank Todd Lynch for his unwavering support. His passion for architecture, it turns out, is contagious. Earlier versions of portions of Chapter 2 first appeared as ‘‘In Memory of Moors: ‘Maurophilia’ and National Identity in Early Modern Spain,’’ 200 Acknowledgments Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 2, 1 (2002) and as ‘‘1492 and the Cleaving of Hispanism,’’ Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37, 3 (2007): 493–510; an early version of Chapter 5 appeared as ‘‘The Spanish Race’’ in Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires, ed. Margaret Greer, Maureen Quilligan, and Walter Mignolo (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). Reprinted by permission. I owe thanks to the various editors and readers for their suggestions. For kindly granting permissions for images , I am grateful to Charles Stopford Sackville, Esq.; the Casselman Archive at the University of Wisconsin; the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library, the Biblioteca ‘‘José Marı́a Lafragua ’’ of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, and the Museo Municipal de Madrid. Special thanks also to Jane Cunningham of the Courtauld Institute of Art. Exotic Nation was made possible by grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the University Research Foundation at Penn, and the Penn Humanities Forum. ...

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