Acknowledgements

This book stems from a one-day workshop held at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, on 20 September 2019. Most of the contributors to this book participated in the event and the chapters included in this book are based on their workshop papers. We would like to thank Linda Newson and Olga Jiménez for helping to organize the event and Miranda Sheild Johansson and Patrick O’Hare for chairing panels and contributing to the workshop. We are indebted to Penny Harvey for her encouragement and support throughout this project and for her terrific foreword to this book. Two external reviewers provided excellent comments and suggestions on a complete draft of the book manuscript, which helped us make significant improvements to the volume. Everyone at University of London Press has been kind, attentive, and patient throughout the writing and publication process. We would particularly like to thank Robert Davies for his fantastic work pulling together the manuscript. We are also grateful to the SFB1369 at Ludwig Maximilian University and the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for supporting the book project and to Eugena Koci for compiling the index. Finally, we would like to thank the contributing authors for making this book a reality. We have heard horror stories about compiling edited collections, but our experience has been precisely the opposite!