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Many people have helped me in the preparation of this book over the long period that I have been working on it, both by their encouragement and in offering helpful suggestions, and I hope they will forgive me if I do not even attempt to mention them all by name here. John Lawless read the typescript for the University of Texas Press and made a number of pertinent observations, and Jim Burr and the staff of the Press have been most supportive. I must, however, record my gratitude above all to Michael Gagarin, whose meticulous reading of my first submission and many suggestions for improvement have made the final version so much better and more readable than it would otherwise have been. —m. e. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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