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405 Acknowledgments This volume is part of the Humanities Initiative of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, chaired by Denis Donoghue, Steven Marcus, Francis C. Oakley, and Patricia Meyer Spacks. The academy’s chief executive officer, Leslie Berlowitz, has been an engaged supporter of this volume from its inception and continues to direct the overall initiative. Mapping the Humanities, a project of the Initiative, is a series of volumes intended to describe the evolution and changes in the humanities in recent years. It is under the leadership of Patricia Meyer Spacks, president of the academy, and Steven Marcus, editor of the academy. We are grateful to the following foundations whose funding has helped to support this series: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Sara Lee Foundation. As editor of this volume, I wish also to thank several other individuals for their roles in making this book a reality. Phyllis Bendell of the academy’s publications office has been invaluable in overseeing the publication process. Editor Jacqueline Wehmueller of the Johns Hopkins University Press has been a joy to work with. Ann Twombly has been an exemplary copy editor. Malcolm Richardson, former program director of the Humanities Initiative, was a key advisor in the early stages of this project and capably oversaw a conference at the Academy’s House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the contributors were able to react to each other’s drafts and integrate the volume thematically . Andrew Heinze, J. B. Schneewind, and Werner Sollors were also helpful participants in this project in its early stages. The focus on the theme of “inclusion” was Schneewind’s idea. I owe special thanks to Thomas Bender for a discerning critique of the volume as a whole when in draft. Bender’s suggestions have made this book much better than it would have been without his advice. Finally, I want to say that my thirteen contributors have been ideal colleagues and collectively give the lie to the widespread claim that editing multi-authored volumes is a dreadful experience. —David A. Hollinger This page intentionally left blank ...

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