The writing of this book involved the assistance of manY colleagues and friends to whom I am grateful. My family contributed to my work on this project by helping me in the field when possible and by covering for me while I was gone. I thank my wife, Walker Pearce, for her help in Asia and Europe, and I must credit her as being the person who insisted steadily for twelve years that I should write this book. I thank Roy Pearce Maybank for his work with me in South America and Minnesota, and I appreciate the help of Walker Pearce Maybank in central America.
Much of the travel and many of the contacts for this project came through the assistance of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, where I particularly thank Larraine Matusak, Patrick McDonough, Anna Sheppard, and the members of class V of the Kellogg National Fellowship Program.
I thank the administration of Macalester College for giving me the opportunity to work on this book, and funding from the Bush FoundatiQn and the Joyce Foundation. I particularly appreciate suggestions and help in the research by Anne Sutherland, David McCurdy, Anna Meigs, Kay Crawford, Chris Cavender, and James Stewart. Many students also helped me in this work, but I particularly appreciate the help of David Warland’s computer skills and the field assistance of Douglas Kleemeier in Africa and South America.
My Spanish teachers through the years have worked patiently to open up to me the Indian world of Latin America. I thank Antonio Lasaga, Maria Doleman, Fabiola Franco, and Jorge Vega for their efforts to educate me. In Bolivia I am particularly thankful to Luis Morato-Pena and his family, with whom I lived and worked so often, and I appreciate the assistance of the families of Johnny Villazon in Cochabamba and Federico Kaune in La Paz.
Others who have read and assisted with comments on the manuscript include Twila Kekahaba-Martin, Gotz Freiherr von Houwald, Marc Swartz, Zaida Giraldo, Lee Owens, Rochelle Jones, Hans Christoph Buch, Lavon Lee, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Joyce King, and Ali Salim. I owe a great debt to my agent, Lois Wallace, and my editor, James Wade.
I appreciate the help of the Newberry Library of Chicago, the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C., and the Macalester College library in St. Paul, Minnesota.
No government money was used for any part of this work.
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