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Book Title: Poetry and the Police : Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Item Length: 8.2in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Robert Darnton
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Modern / 18th Century, Political Process / General, WORLD / European, Europe / France, General, Law Enforcement, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Poetry, Sociology / Urban, Information Technology
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Computers, Literary Criticism, History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
