Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa

Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa (Hardcover)by Birgit Tautz (Author)

Product Details
Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (April 3, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1403976414
ISBN-13: 978-1403976413

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