Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 62-92

  Biernacki, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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