Fits and starts

Abstract

If this book succeeds in any of its objectives, its success is due to the help and support of many people whose generosity I acknowledge here. The American Council of Learned Societies, the Stevens Travelling Fellowship Committee of Wellesley College, and the Guggenheim Foundation all provided funds that made the research and writing of this book possible. Thanks are due also to Mary Baldwin College and especially to its president, Cynthia Tyson,