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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank everyone whose clever ideas, humour, and patience helped me write this book. Many thanks to Hugh O’Donnell, Christopher Young, and especially Rod Brookes for their comments on my PhD thesis. Without their support I would not have been able to turn it into a book. I hope that I made good use of their feedback and that they are not too embarrassed to see their names mentioned here. Thanks to John Street and John Greenaway for making sure I stuck with it even when giving up seemed to be easier than finishing, and to all my friends and colleagues in the United Kingdom at Cardiff University, the University of Portsmouth, and the University of East Anglia. I owe many of the good bits in this book to their smart questions and ideas. I especially would like to thank Tammy Boyce, Sian Jenkins, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Andrew Byde, Rebecca Farley, Andrew Adcock, James Thomas, Matt Hills, Jessica Fenton, Steve Spittle, and John Caro. Thanks for feeding me cake and beer, encouraging all my plans, and laughing at my German angst when I needed it. Thanks to Steve for his helpful comments on several chapters and Michael Reder for running the “EM Aufnahmestudio Donnersbergerstraße”.