For similar reasons, those papers that focused more specifically on disciplines such
as literature and geography were also excluded. In brief, the chapters contained in
this book are the works of historians and political scientists.

However, the quality of all the papers was exceptional in my mind. The
discussion that they generated was also compelling. I would like to thank in
particular all of those speakers who regrettably are not included in the volume:
Rebecca Earle, Francis Lambert, Stephanie Dennison, Brígida Pastor, Humberto
Morales Moreno, Gareth Jones, Simon Naylor, Joel Outtes, Jasmine Gideon,
George Lambie, Conrad James, Deborah Shaw, and María Negroni. Furthermore a
number of persons and institutions contributed to the success of the meeting and to
the publication of this volume. I am grateful to my colleagues at the University of
St. Andrews, Gustavo San Román, Bernard Bentley, Louise Haywood, Nigel
Dennis, Alan Paterson, and Francisco Soguero, for their support and encourage-
ment. I am grateful to the officers of the SLAS Committee who allowed the
symposium to take place: Peter Beardsell, Sylvia Chant, Colin Clarke, David Fox,
Gareth Jones, James Dunkerley, Roberto Espíndola, John Fisher, Brian Hamnett,
David Stansfield, Paul Garner, Peter Wade, Rory Miller, Elizabeth Allen and Adam
Bickersteth. I am also grateful to David Corkill and David Preston for the excellent
organization of the conference itself. As in the past, my wife, Caroline, proved
invaluable in assisting with the translation of the Spanish quotes into English and
in preparing the chapters for publication, as well as being prepared to look after
Thomas and Eddie whilst I disappeared yet again to attend another conference.

This volume is dedicated to my sons Thomas and Eddie in the hope that their
generation will find the ideological solutions to the problems with which our
generation is wrestling.

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