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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am very grateful to a multitude of institutions and individuals for bringing to fruition what had begun as a dream a few years ago. This project was generously supported by the University of South Carolina, which became my new academic home in 2004. It began with vital seed money from a grant by the Office of the Provost, Research and Productive Scholar Grant program. Two chairs of the Department of History, Pat Maney and Lacy Ford, have been extraordinarily cooperative in allowing me occasional release time from teaching to pursue this project. The Walker Institute of International and Area Studies provided a home for the Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas (arena), and Gordon Smith, the Walker Institute’s director, and Maria Anastosiou and Sallie Buice, administrative assistants, have been very helpful with the administration of grants and local arrangements. In addition, I am most grateful for additional financial support from the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies and its director, Walter Edgar. My former colleague, Karl Gerth, was most helpful in arranging a generous grant from the Taipei Cultural Foundation in support of our conference, and I thank him and the foundation for their support. A major share of the funding for this project came from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Joel Schwartz and Elizabeth Arndt in neh’s Collaborative Research Division were very helpful to me from start to finish. I am also grateful to the Watson-Brown Foundation and Tad Brown, its president, for their valuable support of this project, particularly for their sponsorship of the authors’ workshop that took place at their magnificent facility, the T. R. R. Cobb House in Athens, Georgia. Sam Thomas and his able staff made us feel welcome and kept us well fed during nearly three days of intensive and very productive work. Nancy Grayson, editor in chief of the University of Georgia Press, has been a stalwart supporter of this project and of arena’s mission in collaborative, international scholarship. I am grateful to her and the entire staff of the press for the effort they put into producing a fine-quality book of essays. [x] Acknowledgments Thanks also to the graduate students at the University of South Carolina who helped on this project: Ann Tucker, Justin Liles, Josh Burgess, and Michael Woods for all their help with the conference. Thanks to David Prior for his expert work on the index. Above all, thanks goes to Eric Rose who from the outset served as a valuable assistant to this project. Finally, my sincere thanks to all the authors of this volume, who proved unusually congenial toward one another and sympathetic with the spirit of this project, which was to bring scholars together across academic and national boundaries. They took seriously the task of criticizing one another’s essays, worked diligently at revising their essays in response to those criticisms, and, in an achievement that is more than any editor could possibly wish for, they met their deadlines. Columbia, South Carolina ...

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