ABSTRACT
I am very grateful to Simon Bainbridge, François-Xavier Gleyzon, Yvonne Sherwood and audiences at Lancaster University, UK, the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and the University of Notre Dame in London for offering valuable feedback and criticism of earlier versions of this essay. In the process of researching, writing and re-writing it, the intellectual and personal friendship of Michael Dillon has been indispensable and I would hereby like to dedicate the essay to Mick.
