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Acknowledgments This book has its roots in ideas developed during a Research Fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University, 2000--2001. I'm grateful to Tony Grafton and Ken Mills for their hospitality and encouragement and for providing an unfailingly stimulating and supportive intellectual environment . Further research was carried out in 2003 at the Huntington Library, aided by a Mayers research fellowship and a British Academy research grant, and at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Historical Society, with the help of a Barra Foundation International Fellowship. I want to thank all the staff of these institutions, andjim Green of the Library Company in particular, for their expert help and patience. Essential though these forays into such fine research libraries are, the intellectual support and friendship of colleagues in the School of American and Canadian Studies at Nottingham (as well as regular sabbatical support from the school) have, as always, been indispensable. And without my wife Gill's presence, and warm tolerance of all the time spent on it, this book, like so much else in my life, would be neither possible nor meaningful. Some sections of the book have been published in earlier versions as "Object Lessons: Fetishism and the Hierarchies of Race and Religion," in Conversion: Old UiJrlds and New, ed. Ken Mills and Anthony Grafton (University of Rochester Press, 2003), and "Representation and Cultural Sovereignty: Some Case Studies," in Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images and Literary Appropriations, ed. Gretchen Bataille (University of Nebraska Press, 2001). ...

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