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| xiii || A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S| A wide array of colleagues and students contributed to this book at various stages of its development. My research assistants for the final segments of the project included Jennifer Rode, Luke Brindle, Ken Billet, Damon Zick, Megan Barke, Darrell Meadows, David Yosifon, and Derek Davision, and I am very grateful to them. A number of scholars offered extremely useful suggestions, some of which are noted in the relevant sections. One of the readers, Kevin White, made several helpful suggestions. I also benefited from my students’ work in my New Topics in Social History class at Carnegie Mellon. My thanks also go to Noralee Frankel, Lisa Sigel, Scott Sandage, and Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn for imaginative and constructive reactions. Karen Callas was both diligent and unflaggingly cheerful in helping prepare the text. I’m also grateful to readers for the NYU Press and to Niko Pfund and Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, whose various contributions have improved the book. Various members of my family went beyond tolerating my distraction ; thanks particularly to Clio, Deborah, and Cordelia for various useful suggestions. I can only begin to thank Margaret Brindle for what she has brought to my life. ...

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