The licit and illicit trade in antiquities

It's Legal but it Ain't Right: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 138-177

  Gerstenblith, Patty ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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