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Acknowledgments As educators, we have benefited importantly from having had the opportunity to take a draft version of this monograph into our seminars at Brown University and at the University of Hawai‘i, and have discussed and considered carefully the commentary that we received from our students there. It is a matter of both pride and substance that they felt comfortable to respond to our efforts with critical enthusiasm and, while properly deferential to their teachers as required by an understanding of the content of the manuscript, at the same time were not at all shy in expressing sometimes fundamental disagreements. In this respect, we would like to thank in particular Shelly Denkinger, Matt Duperon, Eric Colwell, and Stephen Harris. Again as educators, we have had the opportunity to circulate a draft of this work to colleagues at other institutions who were generous enough to set aside their own important research for the time it took to provide us with critical comments. We have been challenged by their responses, and have a better book because of them. For their important interventions, we owe a debt of gratitude to Jin Li (Brown), Chris Panza (Drury), Ralph Weber (St. Gallen), and Michael J. Degnan (St. Thomas). In the process of transforming a manuscript into a book, we have been well served by the professionalism of Pat Crosby at the University of Hawai‘i Press whose own comments on our work were both encouraging and instructive. She also managed to provide us with two anonymous reviewers , one of whom was perhaps overly generous, and one of whom really did not like the book. We learned much from having to respond to both of them, particularly the latter. Whatever infelicities remain, each of us in our hearts believes sincerely that they are an unavoidable consequence of an otherwise warm and sustained collaboration—our fourth to date. ix ...

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