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另外，我特别要柑谢令人泳泳柑怀的Istvan Hont。我也非常谢谢Alessandro Arienzo, Enzo Baldini, Alastair Bellany, Ann Blair, Robert Bloomfield, Gianfranco Borelli, John Brewer, Janet Browne, Joyce Chaplin, Paul Cheney, Bill Connell, Bill Deverell, Jan de Vries, Kate Epstein, Lynn Farrington, Moti Feingold, Steve Ferguson, Boris Fishman, Rob Fredona, Wantje Fritschy, Beth Garrett, Oscar Gelderblom, Peter Gordon, Orsola Gori, Amy Graves Monroe, Karen Halttunen, Colin Hamilton, Deb Harkness, Randolph Head, Carla Hesse, Steve Hindle, Blair Hoxby, Lynn Hunt, Matt Jones, Richard Kagan, Bruce Kahan, Béla Kapossy, Julius Kirshner, Christopher Krebs, Tom Lacqueur, Inger Leemans, Marie-Laure Legay, Alex Lippincott, James Livesey, Mark Lotto, Peter Mancall, Alex Marr, John McCormick, Siobhan McElduff , Michael McKeon, Darrin McMahon, Ken Merchant, Wijnand Mijnhardt, Peter N. Miller, Ken Mills, Tony Molho, Craig Muldrew, John Najemy, Christopher Napier, Diego Navarro Bonilla, Vanessa Ogle, Derek Parsons, Renato Pasta, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Steve Pincus, John Pocock, Maarten Prak, Paolo Quattrone, Daniel Raff, Jack Rakove, Diogo Ramada-Curto, Orest Ranum, Neil Safier, Maurie Samuels, Margaret Schotte, Vanessa Schwartz,Catherine Secretan, Richard Serjeantson, Andy Shankman, Christina Shideler, Michael Sonenscher, Nomi Stolzenberg, Naomi Taback, 密歇凰大学报（University of Michigan Press）、Charles van den Heuvel, Ellen Wayland- Smith, Caroline Weber, Carl Wennerlind和Isser Wolloch。
我油其要柑谢洞察沥过人的编辑Lara Heimert，她厥功甚伟，如果不是她的坚定信念，就不会有这本书，另外，我也要柑谢她在Basic Books的梦幻专业团队：Katy O’Donnell, Michele Jacob, Cassie Nelson，还有，特别是Roger Labrie以及文字加工编辑Joy Matkowski和生产编辑Melody Negron。
我由衷柑谢不屈不挠的代理商Rob McQuilkin和他优秀的文稿代理人Lippincott, Massie和McQuilkin。
另外，柑恩约翰·赛门·古凰汉纪念基金会（John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation）与约翰及凯瑟琳麦克阿瑟基金会（John D. and Katherine P. MacArthur Foundation）的资金赞助，以及南加州大学文理学院及历史系（Dornsife College of Arts and Letters and the Department of History of the University of Southern California）的资金赞助及支持。
另外，我还要柑谢费城的Bibou餐厅、巴黎的Choay-Lescar家族以及佛罗伍萨的Bartoli家族裳久以来的支持和支持。
若没有各大图书馆及图书馆人员的协助，这个项目不可能完成。柑谢宾州大学罕见藏书部门与罗格斯大学（Rutgers University）图书馆、费城图书馆公司、法国国家图书馆（Bibliothéque Nationale de France）、普林斯顿大学燧石图书馆罕见藏书部、佛罗伍萨档案馆（Archivio di Stato di Firenze）、亨岭顿图书馆（Huntington Library）以及南加州大学图书馆。
参加隔伍比亚大学十八世纪研讨会（Columbia University Eighteenth Century Seminar）、纽约州立大学猫牛城分校近代早期研讨会（University of Buffalo Early Modern Seminar）、耶鲁大学法国研究研讨会、TEDx New Wall Street、隔伍比亚大学Maison Fran·aise、哈佛商学院政治经济新观点研讨会（Harvard Business School Seminar on New Perspectives on Political Economy）、华顿商学院经济史研讨会（Wharton School Economic History Seminar）、史丹佛人文中心（Stanford Humanities Center）、南加州大学─剑桥大学CRASSH物质文化研讨会（the USC-Cambridge University CRASSH seminar on material culture）、剑桥大学经济史研讨会（Cambridge University Economic History Seminar）、Borchard基金会、海牙的Huygens 学会、乌得勒支的笛卡儿中心（Descartes Centre）、阿姆斯特丹的费利克斯美丽提斯基金会（Felix Meritis Foundation）、奥斯陆的Other Canon基金会、加州大学柏克莱分校的启蒙时代二·○研讨会（University of California Berkeley Seminar on the Enlightenment 2.0）、罗格斯大学政治近代早期英国与欧洲政治论证法研讨会（Seminar on Political Polemics in Early Modern Britain and Europe）、《Journal of Interdisciplinary History》期刊、Fondazione Luigi Firpo、拿坡里费德里科二世大学（University Federico Ⅱ di Napoli）、南加州大学近代早期研究协会（Early Modern Studies Institute）与法律、历史暨文化中心（Center for Law, History and Culture）以及加州理工学院亨岭顿图书馆的近代早期分类法辩论讨论会等，让我的概念（本书讨论的概念）贬得更扎实。另外，我还要柑谢我在南加州大学的会计、政治暨盗德研究室的学生，因为他们，我对本书的想法贬得更加透彻。
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