Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the trustees of the Leverhulme Trust for the award of a senior research fellowship which enabled me not only to do the research involved in this book, but also to lay the foundations of a larger, still ongoing, project on the ancients, the moderns and the emergence of modern political ideologies in nineteenth-century Europe. I am also indebted both to the Provost and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge for the many different resources that they have made available to me over the years and to the Institut des Etudes Avancées, in Lyon, for a productive year and a wonderful environment. Thanks to Graham Clure, Béla Kapossy, Aline-Florence Manent, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Stephen Sawyer, Steven Vincent and Richard Whatmore for giving me the opportunity to present parts of the content of this book at seminars at the University of Lausanne, the Institute of Historical Research in London, Yale University, North Carolina State University, the American University in Paris, and the University of St Andrews. A full list of everyone who has helped me to write it would be longer than the book itself. I do, however, have a particular debt to Graham Clure, Jared Holley, Isaac Nakhimovsky, and Lucian Robinson both for reading earlier drafts of the whole text and for the clarity, precision and generosity of their critical comments. I am grateful too to Richard Tuck for conversations which, despite comprehensive differences on absolutely everything, have always been a pleasure and an education. At different times, Jenni Caisley, Charlotte Johann, Martin Ruehl, Diana Siclovan, Hanna Weibye, and Sam Zeitlin have given me invaluable help on German language texts and many fascinating insights into political and legal thought in nineteenth-century German-language publications. Richard Bourke, Christopher Brooke, Edward Castleton, John Dunn, Tom Hopkins, Béla Kapossy, Duncan Kelly, Agnieszka Niedzwiecka, David Runciman, Paul Sagar, Céline Spector, Gareth Stedman Jones and Richard Whatmore have always been willing to answer a question or suggest a better approach. Elizabeth Allen has kept me going in more ways than she knows. I am, finally, very grateful to László Kontler and his editorial colleagues for including this work in the book series History of European Political and Constitutional Thought, and to Ester Lels, Ivo Romein and Arjan van Dijk at Brill for their speed, efficiency and kindness in producing the book. As should be clear, the failings and faults in this book are all my own.