Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
The first edition of this book was written during my tenure of a fellow-ship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, during the 1996–7 academic year. I would like to thank the Institute for the support and conviviality it gave, and also the Faculty of Arts of Leiden University, my employer, for allowing me leave of absence. I would also like to thank Dmitri van de Bersselaar, Jan-Bart Gewald, Janneke Jansen, Adam Kuper and Barbara Oomen for their critical comments on various of the chapters, and Robert Edgar for his comments, which helped enormously with the rewriting for the second edition.
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