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In writing this book I have had helpful suggestions from and discussions with a number of people. I should mention Susanna Braund, Richard Johns, Toph Marshall, Lije Milgram, Pascal Porcheron, Mark Trischuk, and two anonymous readers from Polity. Of course I have not taken all their advice or answered all their objections.