Acknowledgments
I an indebted to many individuals for their help in reading chapters or other-
wise offering criticism, information, and advice: Joe Bryant, John Rist, Alex-
ander Murray, Gerald Larson, Alexander Rosenberg, Alan Sica, Jean-Louis
Fabiani, Johan Heilbron, Konrad Jarausch, Michael Mahoney, David MacGre-
gor, Eiko Ikegami, Harrison White, Stephen Kalberg, Sal Restivo, Stephan
Fuchs, Charles Bazerman, David Glidden, Alan Beals, David Bloor, Gene
Anderson, Alexandra Maryanski, Karl Morrison, Shigeru Nakayama, Norbert
Wiley, Michèle Lamont, Joan Richards, Johan Goudsblom, Murray Milner,
Robert Wuthnow, Paul DiMaggio, Steve Fuller, David Kaufer, Charles Lemert,
Wolfram Eberhard, Nikki Keddie, Nathan Sivin, Brian Copenhaver, Robert
Westman, Judith McConnell, Jonathan Turner, and Sam Kaplan. I also thank
participants for comments on colloquia at Uppsala, Amsterdam, Marseille,
ENS, Harvard, Princeton, Virginia, Dayton, Riverside, UCLA, International
Christian University, and Joetsu University. Jie-li Li, Anthony McConnell-
Collins, Maren McConnell-Collins, and Pat Hanneman helped with network
figures and maps. The map on page 576 is from The Penguin Atlas of Modern
History (to 1815) by Colin McEvedy (Penguin Books, 1972), p. 33, © 1972
by Colin McEvedy, and is reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
Michael Aronson of Harvard University Press has been an endlessly patient
and supportive editor, Amanda Heller a world-class manuscript editor. Donna
Bouvier guided the project through production efficiently and supportively. The
Swedish Consortium for Advanced Studies in Social Science kindly hosted me
during part of this research. Not least, I wish to pay respects to the memory
of my teachers, explorers of social-historical time and space: Talcott Parsons,
Reinhard Bendix, Wolfram Eberhard, and Joseph Ben-David.