What Historians Talk About When They Talk About Suicide: The View from Early Modern British North America

History Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 658-674

  Snyder, Terri L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84874864106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14780542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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