Acknowledgements
It takes a village to raise a child, a human (or a book). This manuscript is an adaption of my doctoral dissertation completed at Macquarie University, and supervised by Boyo Ockinga and Susanne Binder to whom I am eternally grateful for their support and advice. The doctoral program in Australia was funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award. Additions to manuscript were made in my Postdoctoral role at Oxford, for which I must gratefully acknowledge funding from the ERC grant “Nomadic Empires: A World-Historical Perspective,” which is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP/2007–2013) / ERC Grant Agreement no. 615040. I am also grateful to the editors at Brill and their comments in shaping the manuscript and my time as a Postdoctoral lecturer at Yale University.
Many people have assisted me with this manuscript. My thanks go particular to Jennifer Cromwell and Margaret Cooper who assisted with the editing of this manuscript in its doctoral format, and also the thesis examiners whose comments undoubtedly improved the content. In no particular order, I wish to thank my friends and family for providing academic and moral support throughout: Dr Aaron de Souza, Dr Gareth Wearne, Dr Ellen Ryan, Dr Korshi Dosoo, Prof. Malcolm Choat, Prof. Yann Tristant, Prof. Linda Evans, Prof. Naguib Kanawati, Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge, Prof. Kyle Keimer, Prof. Stephen Llewelyn, Dr Anna Latifa Mourad, Dr Milena Kooyman, Dr Tanya Muscat, Dr Christina Geisen, Dr Christopher Haddad, Dr Bryan Miller, Prof. Pekka Hämälainen, Julia Hamilton, Jonathan Beltz, Dr Maya Petrovich, and Julia Klann. In addition, I want to thank the following scholars for discussing their research and assisting me with questions and/or access to materials: Dr Roman Gundacker, Prof. Helmut Satzinger, Prof. Pierre Tallet, Prof. Karola Zibelius-Chen, Prof. Vivian Davies, Dr Luigi Prada, Dr Renée Friedman, Dr Claire Somaglino, Dr Kate Liszka, Prof. Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Prof. Hélène Cuvigny, Prof. Hans-Christian Luschützky, Dr Elizabeth Bloxam, Prof. Ian Shaw, Dr Francis Breyer, Prof. Susanne Bickel, Prof. Kate Spence, and Prof. John Darnell. And with utmost respect and indebtedness, I’d like to thank my family, who have given me unending love, support, and humour through my academic studies.