‘Eternity's commissioner’: Thomas Carlyle, the Great Irish Famine and the geopolitics of travel
✍ Scribed by David Nally
- Book ID
- 116653102
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 424 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0305-7488
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