Acknowledgments

Our greatest debt is to the late Harold Blakemore. He was to have been our co-author. His death (February 20, 1991) was a severe personal blow to both of us. There are many others who could say the same, not least in Chile. Although fate denied Harold his part in writing this book, his influence on it was not small. He commented in detail on all the chapters in first draft up to the time of his death (roughly half the eventual text), and the book greatly benefited from many of his ideas and suggestions.

We wish to acknowledge the numerous friends, in Chile and elsewhere, who advised us (even if just by sparking off ideas) or who gave us help and support in other ways, in some cases over many years. In particular, we express our gratitude to Patricia Arancibia, Christon Archer (Calgary, Canada), the late Mario Bronfman, his widow Nana and their children as well as their respective spouses, Eduardo Cavieres, Ricardo Couyoumdjian, Baldomero Estrada, the late Patricio Estellé (Director of the Archivo Nacional at the time of his sadly premature death in 1975), Cristián Gazmuri, the late Mario Góngora, the late Gonzalo Izquierdo, Iván Jaksić (Mishawaka, Indiana), the late Álvaro Jara, the late Rolando Mellafe, Gonzalo Mendoza (former Chilean Consul General in Los Angeles) and his wife Verónica, the late Claudio Orrego Vicuña (whose far-too-early death in 1982 was a real loss to Chilean politics), Luis Ortega, the late Arturo Prat E. and his widow Elena Walker Martínez vda de Prat, Jaime and Linda Rodríguez (Los Angeles), Sol Serrano, the late Richard Southern (whose understanding of Chile was unique among English-speaking scholars), the late Juan Uribe-Echeverría, Michael Varley (Rector of Wenlock School, Santiago), and Sergio Villalobos R. (whose intellectual tenacity has been a constant inspiration to us). Ricardo Donoso, Guillermo Feliú Cruz, and Eugenio Pereira Salas – Chilean scholars of a now vanished generation – gave much unwitting stimulation; it was a privilege to have known them. Our warm gratitude is also due to the friendly staffs of the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (Sala Medina, Sala Matta Vial, Newspaper and Microfilm sections in particular), where we have both passed nontrivial portions of our adult lives, as well as (far from Chile) those of the Albert Sloman Library (University of Essex) and the Jean and Alexander Heard Library (Vanderbilt University). Simon Collier thanks the Catholic University of Valparaiso and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Santiago) for their generous hospitality to him as visiting professor in 1994 and 2002. Norma Antillón (Center for Latin American & Iberian Studies, Vanderbilt University) gave us eagle-eyed assistance in the final preparation of the original manuscript. Finally, we are both extremely grateful to the original two anonymous readers for Cambridge University Press for some valuable comments and to Frank Smith (Publishing Director, Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press) for inveigling us into doing this second version of our book.

For permission to quote two lines from W. H. Auden’s classic poem “Letter to Lord Byron,” first published in W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Letters from Iceland (London, 1937), the authors thank Faber and Faber Ltd., London.