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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-21 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic
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