Acknowledgements

For their help with the preparation of the book, I thank Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson, François Dell, Mohamed Elmedlaoui, Janet Fabb, Frog, Madeleine Grealy, Faye Hammill, Marged Haycock, Jonathan Hope, Elspeth Jajdelska, Ewa Jaworska, Julia Kind, Bob Ladd, Gwyneth Lewis, Karina Lukin, Wilson McLeod, Lev Michael, Joanna McPake, Martin Orwin, Alena Rettová, Joel Sherzer, Renate Sohnen-Thieme, Venla Sykäri, Gary Thoms, Alice Turk, Myf Turpin, Stefano Versace and an anonymous reader for Cambridge University Press. I thank my editor Bethany Gaunt and, as always, Andrew Winnard for his support for what is now my third book for Cambridge University Press. The University of Strathclyde School of Humanities provided a semester's research leave. Any errors and misrepresentations that remain in the text are my responsibility.