Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century: Ideas and Materialities c. 1650–1850 (Knowledge and Communication in the Enlightenment World)

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Publisher: Boydell Press
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Leaves: 426
Category: Library

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