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xvii Acknowledgments I’d like to acknowledge the staff at ABC-CLIO who helped make this possible, including George Butler for signing me to the project and John Wagner for his patience and guidance in helping bring it to a conclusion. Experience tells me that I should also thank the, as yet unknown, copy editor who will be assigned to review the drafts of this work before final publication. I would also like to thank colleagues who have allowed me to tap into their expertise at times, including historians Daniel Franke, John D. Hosler, Gregory Leighton, Paul F. Crawford, Florin Curta, and many others. More than anyone else, I would like to thank my wife, Michele, and our three young children, Isabella, Claire, and Jack. They have shown extraordinary patience and support as I spent many nights over the more than two years this project was in production locked away in my den working on the manuscript.