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Acknowledgments Many debts are incurred during a collaborative project such as this. First and foremost, we would like to thank the contributors to the volume and Timothy Mitchell for writing the afterword. They are all exceedingly insightful , innovative, and accomplished scholars with whom it has been a genuine pleasure to work. Their grace and good humor at meeting deadlines , discussing their work, and making revisions made it easy and fun to work on this project. We also warmly thank the editorial director at Ohio University Press, Gillian Berchowitz, and James L. A. Webb, Jr., editor of Ohio’s Series in Ecology and History, for their enthusiasm and support of this project. It has been a delight to work with them and their expert production team, including Nancy Basmajian, Jean Cunningham, and Beth Pratt. We are furthermore indebted to the anonymous reviewers of the volume for their insightful comments and helpful suggestions for revision. In addition, Diana Davis would like to thank Terry Burke, a mentor and friend from whom she has learned so much over the years, for his collaboration on this project. For their help with various aspects of her work in this volume, she is also very grateful to Abbas Amanat, Mark Cioc, Julia Clancy-Smith, Paul Claval, Steven Greenhalgh, Roger Louis, Ian Manners , James McCann, Pernilla Ouis, Susan Slyomovics, Jeannie Sowers, and Michael Watts. At the University of California at Davis, she would like to thank, for their help and support, Dean George R. Mangun and Assistant Dean Steven Roth, as well as all of her new colleagues in the Department of History, especially Louis Warren, Ari Kelman, and Omnia El Shakry. Dan Goldstein and Jason Newborn, her colleagues at the UC Davis Shields Library , also deserve her special thanks for all their help. Her research would not have been possible without the many who helped her, and to whom she is indebted, in France at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; the Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes; and the Centre des Archives xiv | Acknowledgments d’Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence. For the pure joy and love they bring into her life, and the patience with which they bear the work necessary for a project such as this, she is eternally grateful to James, Max, and Corbin. For their many years of guidance and friendship, she dedicates this book to Ian R. Manners and W. Roger Louis. ...

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