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Book Title: The Paradox Of A Global Usa
Item Length: 8.5in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Jessica Malay
Publication Name: Case of Mistress Mary Hampson : Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century England
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Number of Pages: 176 Pages