Duncan Bell - Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America

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I AM INDEBTED to the many people who have helped me with this book, in ways both large and small, over the last few years. David Armitage, Sarah Fine, Joel Isaac, Duncan Kelly, Jeanne Morefield, Srdjan Vucetic, Peter Mandler, Andrew Preston, Or Rosenboim, and Casper Sylvest have been incisive interlocutors during my time working on the ever-elusive Angloworld. This book has benefited enormously from my ongoing discussions with them. The following people helped in a variety of ways, whether reading draft material, offering excellent advice, or providing valuable information: Tarak Barkawi, Jens Bartelson, Alison Bashford, Ori Beck, Jamie Belich, Marina Bilbija, Jessica Blatt, Alex Bremner, Chris Brooke, Stewart Brown, Jude Browne, Robert Burroughs, Peter Cain, Martin Ceadel, Greg Claeys, Sarah Cole, Tommy Curry, Hannah Dawson, Daniel Deudney, Sean Fleming, Michael Freeden, Katrina Forrester, Andrew Gamble, Gary Gerstle, Adom Getachew, Nicholas Guyatt, Ian Hall, Ian Hesketh, Ian Hunter, Andrew Hurrell, Simon James, Charles Jones, Stuart Jones, Ira Katznelson, Zaheer Kazmi, Mike Kenny, Krishan Kumar, Alexander Livingston, Emma Mackinnon, Karuna Mantena, Mark Mazower, Dilip Menon, Charles Mills, Sam Moyn, Jess Nevins, Marc-William Palen, Patrick Parrinder, Susan Pedersen, Clare Pettit, Jennifer Pitts, Adam Roberts, Simon Schaffer, Malcolm Schofield, Jim Secord, David Sedley, Robbie Shilliam, Brendan Simms, Quentin Skinner, Philip Steer, Marc Stears, Gareth Stedman Jones, Anders Stephanson, John A. Thompson, Richard Tuck, James Tully, Mathias Thaler, Caroline Vout, Mark Walters, Stephen Wertheim, Bernardo Zacka, Ayse Zarakol, and Marcus Zunino. I am very grateful to all of them. Eliza Garnsey, David Kennerley, Marietta van der Tol, Hannah Woods, and Alexander Wong provided invaluable research assistance. Once again, it has been a pleasure to work with Princeton University Press. Ben Tate has been a generous and patient editor. The anonymous reviewers (including Reviewer 2!) provided extremely helpful comments. Hank Southgate was an exemplary copyeditor.

Several institutions helped to sustain my research for the book. Colleagues in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge have provided an extremely collegial environment to pursue research at the interface of political theory, intellectual history, and international relations. Christs College, Cambridge, remains a beautiful and inspiring place to work. I am very grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for its vital financial support. Thanks also to Sebastian Conrad and Andreas Eckert for inviting me to spend a very stimulating period as a visiting fellow at the Research School for Global Intellectual History (Freie Universitt Berlin and Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin). I am grateful to audiences at research seminars and conference (too numerous to list) where parts of this project have been presented over the last few years. The research would have been impossible without the expertise and generous assistance of librarians in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Keele, London, Manchester, Oxford, Urbana-Champaign, New York, and Washington.

Some of the material included in this book has been published elsewhere, in one form or another. Parts of were published as Before the Democratic Peace: Racial Utopianism, Empire, and the Abolition of War, European Journal of International Relations, 20/3 (2014); Beyond the Sovereign State: Isopolitan Citizenship, Race, and Anglo-American Union, Political Studies, 62/2 (2014). Thanks to the publishers and editors for permission to use this material.

This book is dedicated to Sarah Fine, with all my love.

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