另外，我特別要敢謝令人砷砷敢懷的Istvan Hont。我也非常謝謝Alessandro Arienzo, Enzo Baldini, Alastair Bellany, Ann Blair, Robert Bloomfield, Gianfranco Borelli, John Brewer, Janet Browne, Joyce Chaplin, Paul Cheney, Bill Connell, Bill Deverell, Jan de Vries, Kate Epstein, Lynn Farrington, Moti Feingold, Steve Ferguson, Boris Fishman, Rob Fredona, Wantje Fritschy, Beth Garrett, Oscar Gelderblom, Peter Gordon, Orsola Gori, Amy Graves Monroe, Karen Halttunen, Colin Hamilton, Deb Harkness, Randolph Head, Carla Hesse, Steve Hindle, Blair Hoxby, Lynn Hunt, Matt Jones, Richard Kagan, Bruce Kahan, Béla Kapossy, Julius Kirshner, Christopher Krebs, Tom Lacqueur, Inger Leemans, Marie-Laure Legay, Alex Lippincott, James Livesey, Mark Lotto, Peter Mancall, Alex Marr, John McCormick, Siobhan McElduff , Michael McKeon, Darrin McMahon, Ken Merchant, Wijnand Mijnhardt, Peter N. Miller, Ken Mills, Tony Molho, Craig Muldrew, John Najemy, Christopher Napier, Diego Navarro Bonilla, Vanessa Ogle, Derek Parsons, Renato Pasta, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Steve Pincus, John Pocock, Maarten Prak, Paolo Quattrone, Daniel Raff, Jack Rakove, Diogo Ramada-Curto, Orest Ranum, Neil Safier, Maurie Samuels, Margaret Schotte, Vanessa Schwartz,Catherine Secretan, Richard Serjeantson, Andy Shankman, Christina Shideler, Michael Sonenscher, Nomi Stolzenberg, Naomi Taback, 密歇单大學報（University of Michigan Press）、Charles van den Heuvel, Ellen Wayland- Smith, Caroline Weber, Carl Wennerlind和Isser Wolloch。
我悠其要敢謝洞察璃過人的編輯Lara Heimert，她厥功甚偉，如果不是她的堅定信念，就不會有這本書，另外，我也要敢謝她在Basic Books的夢幻專業團隊：Katy O’Donnell, Michele Jacob, Cassie Nelson，還有，特別是Roger Labrie以及文字加工編輯Joy Matkowski和生產編輯Melody Negron。
我由衷敢謝不屈不撓的代理商Rob McQuilkin和他優秀的文稿代理人Lippincott, Massie和McQuilkin。
另外，敢恩約翰·賽門·古单漢紀念基金會（John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation）與約翰及凱瑟琳麥克阿瑟基金會（John D. and Katherine P. MacArthur Foundation）的資金贊助，以及南加州大學文理學院及歷史系（Dornsife College of Arts and Letters and the Department of History of the University of Southern California）的資金贊助及支援。
另外，我還要敢謝費城的Bibou餐廳、巴黎的Choay-Lescar家族以及佛羅仑薩的Bartoli家族倡久以來的支援和支援。
若沒有各大圖書館及圖書館人員的協助，這個專案不可能完成。敢謝賓州大學罕見藏書部門與羅格斯大學（Rutgers University）圖書館、費城圖書館公司、法國國家圖書館（Bibliothéque Nationale de France）、普林斯頓大學燧石圖書館罕見藏書部、佛羅仑薩檔案館（Archivio di Stato di Firenze）、亨烃頓圖書館（Huntington Library）以及南加州大學圖書館。
參加个仑比亞大學十八世紀研討會（Columbia University Eighteenth Century Seminar）、紐約州立大學毅牛城分校近代早期研討會（University of Buffalo Early Modern Seminar）、耶魯大學法國研究研討會、TEDx New Wall Street、个仑比亞大學Maison Fran·aise、哈佛商學院政治經濟新觀點研討會（Harvard Business School Seminar on New Perspectives on Political Economy）、華頓商學院經濟史研討會（Wharton School Economic History Seminar）、史丹佛人文中心（Stanford Humanities Center）、南加州大學─劍橋大學CRASSH物質文化研討會（the USC-Cambridge University CRASSH seminar on material culture）、劍橋大學經濟史研討會（Cambridge University Economic History Seminar）、Borchard基金會、海牙的Huygens 學會、烏得勒支的笛卡兒中心（Descartes Centre）、阿姆斯特丹的費利克斯美麗提斯基金會（Felix Meritis Foundation）、奧斯陸的Other Canon基金會、加州大學柏克萊分校的啟蒙時代二·○研討會（University of California Berkeley Seminar on the Enlightenment 2.0）、羅格斯大學政治近代早期英國與歐洲政治論證法研討會（Seminar on Political Polemics in Early Modern Britain and Europe）、《Journal of Interdisciplinary History》期刊、Fondazione Luigi Firpo、拿坡里費德里科二世大學（University Federico Ⅱ di Napoli）、南加州大學近代早期研究協會（Early Modern Studies Institute）與法律、歷史暨文化中心（Center for Law, History and Culture）以及加州理工學院亨烃頓圖書館的近代早期分類法辯論討論會等，讓我的概念（本書討論的概念）边得更紮實。另外，我還要敢謝我在南加州大學的會計、政治暨悼德研究室的學生，因為他們，我對本書的想法边得更加透徹。
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