Thomas Miller Klubock - Ranquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile

RNQUIL

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Acknowledgments

I AM HAPPY TO recognize all those who have contributed to this book over the years. First and foremost, I would like to thank the staffs of numerous archives and libraries in Chile, including the Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, the Biblioteca Nacional, the Archivo Nacional and Archivo Nacional de la Administracin in Santiago, the Archivo Regional de la Araucana and Archivo de Asuntos Indgenas in Temuco, and the office of the Registro Civil in Lonquimay. I am also pleased to recognize the assistance of those who facilitated access to judicial records held by the Corte de Apelaciones and the Conservador de Bienes Races in Temuco and the Juzgado Criminal in Victoria. Without the patience and, at times, heroic diligence of these archivists and librarians, especially staff members who searched dusty shelves for uncatalogued and long-ignored volumes, I would have never been able to locate many of the documents that provide the books foundation. I would also like to thank Alberto Harambour Ross, Karen Donoso Fritz, and Pamela Nahuelcheo for their research assistance over the years.

I am grateful for the support of Jaya Chatterjee of Yale University Press. The book benefited from Lawrence Kenneys superb copyediting. Anonymous reviewers for Yale provided helpful comments and suggestions at different stages while I completed the manuscript. I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Brian Loveman for his thoughtful comments on the manuscript as it reached its final stages. The book is much improved because of his meticulous reading, informed by his encyclopedic knowledge of Chilean history. I thank Heidi Tinsman and Peter Winn for years of friendship and intellectual exchange as well as for the very helpful comments both provided on the manuscript.

I presented some of the preliminary ideas for this book at a seminar at the Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco. I thank the historians Jaime Flores Chvez and Jorge Pinto for their comments. I am especially grateful to Jaime Flores Chvez for the helpful conversations we had about the Rnquil rebellion. His 1993 Universidad de Santiago de Chile masters thesis on Rnquil stands as a pioneering piece of research on Chiles social history. I had the opportunity to present some of the research in this book at the Norbert Lechner Seminar and Jornadas de Historia de Chile conference hosted by the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, where I received insightful comments from the attendees. I have also benefited from influential conversations I had with a number of historians in Chile. For their many years of friendship and intellectual inspiration I thank Julio Pinto Vallejos, Vernica Valdiva de Ortz, Alberto Harambour Ross, and Consuelo Figueroa Garavagno. I would also like to thank forester Frida Schweitzer for her assistance and support in Lonquimay and Rnquil.

A semester sabbatical research leave from teaching and research funding from the University of Virginia provided the essential time and resources I needed to complete the book. I am grateful to Chris Gist of the University of Virginia Scholars Lab, who produced drafts of three of the books maps, and Nick Springer of Springer Cartographics, who designed and produced final versions of all four of the maps included here. This book grew out of research I did for a chapter of my book La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Southern Chile and for a chapter in A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counter-Insurgent Violence during Latin Americas Long Cold War, edited by Greg Grandin and Gilbert Joseph, and includes material from parts of those chapters.

Finally, my parents, Daniel Klubock and Dorothy Miller, and my sister Katharine Klubock contributed to this book with their unfailing support and years of lively conversation and debate. I thank Sandhya Shukla for her love, wisdom, and humor and our sons, Ishan and Kiran, for the great happiness they have brought us.

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