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Book Title: Unsettling Utopia: The Making And Unmaking Of French India
Item Length: 8.9in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 7.4in
Author: Jessica Namakkal
Publication Name: Unsettling Utopia : the Making and Unmaking of French India
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History Ser.
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
