Acknowledgements
The conference on which this book is based was made possible by the network and the very existence of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. We are grateful to the institute and its then Director of Research, Marcel van der Linden, for the hospitality and general support for the project, and to Ineke Kellij at the iish for taking care of the logistics. Additional funding was supplied by Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Van Winter Fonds and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).
We also would like to thank Mark David Wyers for correcting the texts of non-English authors and Babere Kerata Chacha, Ziyad Choonara, Jan MacKell, Jürgen Nautz and Rhys Glyn Llwyd Williams, who contributed their insights to the project.