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My interest in Lev Gumilev dates back to my graduate studies, and so I begin these acknowledgements by thanking my teachers: Jim Gibson in Toronto, and Nicholas Riasanovsky, Martin Malia, David Hooson, Clarence Glacken, and Alexander Yanov in Berkeley. In different ways, each of them stimulated and helped shape my thinking about the themes and subjects examined in this book. The book itself has taken a very long time to complete—although not, I think it is fair to say, through any undue negligence on my part. The simple fact is that the sensational growth of Gumilev’s celebrity over the past decade has meant that the range and complexity of the materials I needed to digest never ceased to expand, yearly and indeed monthly, under my increasingly horror-stricken eyes. I began work on the project as a Reader in Cultural and Political Geography at University College London (UCL), continued with it after moving to the University of Birmingham as Professor of Human Geography, and have completed it in my present position as Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas in the Center for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm. I am grateful to my colleagues in all of these institutions for their interest and support throughout the many years I have been preoccupied with it.
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