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THREE APPROACHES TO BOOK HISTORY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2008

PETER BURKE
PETER BURKE*
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Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , August 2008 , pp. 363 - 372
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