Acknowledgements
The editors are grateful to Tessa Harvey who commissioned this work and seemed
never to doubt that it would one day appear; to Humaira Erfan-Ahmed and Anna
Boeles Rowland for invaluable editorial help with the “typescript;” to Georgina
Coleby at Wiley Blackwell for smoothing the book’s passage through the press; to Jo
Curtis for vigilant copy-editing; and, above all, to the contributors for all their
scholarly labours, their willingness to revise their chapters against tight deadlines, and
their patience with the whole lengthy process. This is their book.
Peregrine Horden
Sharon Kinoshita