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Book Title: Citizens to Lords : A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages
Item Length: 8.2in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Ellen Meiksins Wood
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Ancient / General, History & Theory, Social History, Europe / Medieval
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: History, Political Science
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
