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Book Title: Practices Of Resistance In The Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthe...
Number of Pages: 306 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Practices of Resistance : Narratives, Politics, and Aesthetics Across the Caribbean and Its Diasporas
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Sociology / General, History & Theory, Revolutionary, General, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Author: Wiebke Beushausen
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: Interamerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict Ser.
Format: Hardcover
