National cultures before nationalism

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Published 1994 by University of California Press in Berkeley CA .
Written in English

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Edition Notes

Special issue.

Statement	edited by Carla Hesse and Thomas Laqueur.
Series	Representations -- no.47
Contributions	Laqueur, Thomas., Hesse, Carla.
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL21278611M

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