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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-13 - Publisher: Verso Books
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Pages: 363
Pages: 363
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-07 - Publisher: Granta Publications
This “absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey”—the first complete map of the British Isles—"charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome”
Language: en
Pages: 402
Pages: 402
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-09 - Publisher: Duke University Press
Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian
Language: en
Pages: 274
Pages: 274
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-21 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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