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Book Title: Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution : the Abbe Sieyes and What Is the Third Estate?
Item Length: 9.8in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.9in
Author: William H. Sewell Jr., William H. Sewell
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Europe / France
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 1994
Genre: History, Social Science
Item Weight: 13.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
