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Acknowledgements
I have incurred numerous debts during my work on this project and it is my pleasure to record some of them here. The list of institutions may be complete, but I have no doubt that I have overlooked many individuals and I should apologize to them at this point. The British Academy provided me with a generous Wolfson European Fellowship when I started work, which enabled me to spend time at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. Book and research grants provided by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge have been invaluable at every stage.
The College also generously awarded me an additional grant towards the cost of the index. I am grateful to the Electors of the Tiarks German Scholarship Fund, who kindly agreed to pay for the maps and to help with other costs I incurred in the production of the manuscript. A generous grant from the Newton Trust helped me in the final stages of checking the manuscript for submission and preparing it for publication. Among the many people who have given me help and encouragement over the years, I should like to thank the following: Geoff Bailey, Derek Beales, Ilya Bercovich, Tim Blanning, Nicholas Boyle, Annabel Brett, Anita Bunyan, Paul Castle, Stephanie Chan, Christopher Clark, Christophe Duhamelle, Richard Duncan-Jones, Richard Evans, Stephen Fennell, Axel Gotthard, the late Trevor Johnson, Andreas Klinger, Charlotte Lee, Neil McKendrick, Ian Maclean, Alison Martin, Sharon Nevill, Barry Nisbet, Sheilagh Ogilvie, William O’Reilly, Roger Paulin, the late Volker Press, Ritchie Robertson, Heinz Schilling, Anton Schindling, Alexander Schmidt, Georg Schmidt, Luise Schorn-Schütte, Brendan Simms, Ingrid Sindermann-Mittmann, Gareth Stedman Jones, Mikuláš Teich, Alice Teichova, Andrew Thompson, Maiken Umbach, Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, Siegrid Westphal, Peter Wilson, Charlotte Woodford, and Chris Young. My work would not have been possible without the assistance of the staff of the Cambridge University Library. In particular, David Lowe and Christian Staufenbiel have been absolutely marvellous.
I have much appreciated Christian’s willingness to respond to (far too many) e-mails marked ‘urgent’ and the speed with which he has so often made it possible for me to consult a newly acquired book. He and David Lowe together make the University Library surely one of the best places in the world to pursue research in German studies. At Gonville and Caius College, Yvonne Holmes, Wendy Fox and Louise Mills have provided assistance at crucial points. The combined efforts of Harvey Barker, Maki Lam, Matt Lee, and Richard Pettit in the College Computer Office have ensured that I did not on occasion delete large parts of the text by mistake and they rescued me promptly, and with great good humour, from all too many ‘computer crises’. In the Caius library, Mark Statham and Sonia Londero have always been unfailingly helpful.
I am grateful to Philip Stickler and David Watson of the Cambridge University Department of Geography Cartographic Unit for their help in devising the maps which accompany each volume. At Oxford University Press, I would like to thank my wonderfully helpful Commissioning Editor Stephanie Ireland, and Production Editor Emma Barber. Elizabeth Stone (copy-editor) and Fiona Barry (proofreader) have also been most thorough and efficient. Robert Evans invited me to undertake this project and he has been constantly supportive ever since. He has also been extremely patient in awaiting the outcome.
I am deeply grateful to him for his trust in me and for the care and attention with which he read various sections of the text over the years and then the draft of the whole manuscript in the summer of 2010. Among many more personal debts, I am grateful to David Theobald and Peter Crabbe for cups of tea and diverting conversations about things other than ‘the book’, and to the Reverend Margaret Mabbs, who asked every year. My greatest debt, as the dedication indicates, is to Alice. Joachim Whaley Cambridge 31.x.11
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