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I would like to thank Pascal Porcheron and Polity Press for the invitation to write this book. Although I have long reflected on the history of Latin American history, and have even written a bit about the subject, writing this volume has given me the opportunity to take a closer and deeper look at the longue durée of the field. I have been a participant-observer over the past five decades in the shifting historiographical approaches I describe in chapters 3–6. Revisiting this history has been an enlightening personal as well as professional encounter with Latin American history and historians across decades and centuries.

An abraço to Tom Holloway for his advice and suggestions since the inception of the project. I also very much appreciate the generous and helpful comments of the two anonymous outside readers of the manuscript. Many, many years ago, Teresa Meade (without either of us knowing) gave me the initial push in our work on the Conference on Latin American History’s Teaching Committee. Obrigado, Teresa. After a quarter century, here is the result of our discussions. As always, many thanks to my colleagues in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University, especially Jane Landers, Celso Castilho, Eddie Wright-Rios, and Frank Robinson, our Latin American history junta. The graduate students in my Research Seminar in Latin American History during the fall of 2020 read and discussed an earlier version of the manuscript. Thank you, Claudia Monterroza Rivera, André Ramos Chacón, Ricky Sakamoto-Pugh, and Alex Sanchez.

Finally, my thanks to Pascal and his able crew – Ellen MacDonald-Kramer, Stephanie Homer, Rachel Moore, and Caroline Richmond – who have shepherded the project from inception to completion.