Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Galbraith, John Kenneth
• JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS
• Diggins, John Patrick

Titel

THE LESSONS OF AN HISTORIAN

Ist Teil von

• The Liberal Persuasion, 2017, p.62-66

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

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