Acknowledgments

Naomi R. Lamoreaux thanks the many colleagues whose comments helped her conceptualize this essay. These include Ruth Bloch, Lance Davis, Stanley Engerman, Louis Galambos, Stephen Haber, David Lamoreaux, Kenneth Lipartito, John Majewski, Gregory Mark, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, David Sicilia, Kenneth Sokoloff, John Wallis, and Mary Yeager. She is grateful for the research assistance of Juliette Levy, Victoria Nayak, and Andrea Maestrejuan; for the ongoing support and helpful comments of Susan Carter, Richard Sutch, Matt Sobek, and Monty Hindman; and for financial assistance from the All-UC Economic History Group. Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies enabled her to take leave from teaching to pursue the research underlying this chapter.