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Peter Charles Hoffer, Sensory Worlds in Early America. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 2003. x + 334 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7353-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

Konstantin Dierks
Affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington

Abstract

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Type
Reviews: North America
Copyright
Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2005

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Notes

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