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Acknowledgments It’s a great pleasure to be able to express my gratitude to all the fine folks who have helped me in so many ways over the years I have worked on this book. I will always cherish the memory of your gifts—whether they took the form of a promising research tip or a timely word of encouragement. First, thanks to Tom Dwyer, Andrea Olson, and Christopher Dreyer at the University of Michigan Press for the unfailing good humor with which they have shepherded me through the publication process. I am also grateful to the University of Iowa for the support it provided me during this project. The Provost’s Office granted me two career development awards that enabled me to focus on my research, and the Office of the Vice President for Research generously provided funds to help pay for a research assistant, an indexer, and the illustrations. Thanks as well to everyone in the Interlibrary Loan Office and the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries who helped me track down sources. I am deeply grateful to my research assistants from the University of Iowa English and American Studies departments: Joann Quiñones-Perdomo, Tim Bryant, Ray Mescallado, Jennifer McGovern, Kevin Wyne, Andy Clinton, Greg Bales, Jodi Byrd, Amy Lilly, Kim Cohen, Josh Raulerson, Katie Gubbels , Gyorgy Toth, Eric Johnson, Amy Hezel, Ashley Brewer Gill, Matt Lavin, Steven Williams, and Nate Titman. Many of these folks helped me back in the predigital era, when doing research meant scanning texts with one’s eyes. I have a mountain of photocopies that attest to their hard work! A million thanks to my chairs in the English and American Studies departments, Dee Morris, John Raeburn, Brooks Landon, Lauren Rabinovitz , Kim Marra, Susan Birrell, Horace Porter, Jon Wilcox, and Claire Sponsler, who have supported my career, fostered my research, and lifted my spirits on many occasions. I am also indebted to my other terrific colleagues viii • Acknowledgments at Iowa, who have taken an interest in my research and nurtured it in myriad ways. Thanks in particular to Ed Folsom and Kathleen Diffley, who have come to my aid more times than I can remember. I am also deeply indebted to the generous Iowa colleagues who have read and commented on earlier versions of my chapters. Claire Fox, Laura Rigal, and Harry Stecopoulos all provided me with thoughtful and stimulating responses to my work, not to mention a thousand words of encouragement to keep me writing. Thanks so much! I have also received crucial support from colleagues at other institutions, including Bruce McConachie, Dale Knobel, and Tom Lutz. I am especially indebted to Joseph Conforti, who over the years has emerged as my ideal of scholarly achievement and intellectual generosity. He powerfully influenced this book not only through his own excellent scholarship on New England regional identity but also through his thoughtful and supportive responses to my work. I would like to thank Michèle Schoenfeld for providing me with elegant translations of French texts and for all the warmth and loving kindness she has shown my daughters. Merci beaucoup, Michèle! I could not have written this book without the love and encouragement I received from my family. My deepest gratitude to Faye and Eldon Smith for all the good times, hilarious stories, and cherished memories and to all the Conrads, Christensens, and Adamses for making trips home so magical. I am truly humbled when I consider my debts to my parents, L. B. Adams Jr. and Margaret W. Adams. They have calmed my nerves and kept me writing through the years with a steady stream of sympathy, sage advice, and loving kindness. I honestly can’t express my gratitude. Thanks to Binh and Mai for making life so rich and exciting every day. I am so proud of both of you! Most of all, thanks to Doris Witt for two dazzling decades—for all the wisdom, all the generosity, and all the love. Here’s to the next twenty! [54.163.62.42] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:17 GMT) Acknowledgments • ix The first chapter was originally published as “World Conquerors or a Dying People? Racial Theory, Regional Anxiety, and the Brahmin Anglo-Saxonists,” by Bluford Adams, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Volume 08, Issue 02 (April 2009), pp. 189–215. Copyright © 2009 Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. An...