Sex, savagery, and slavery in the shaping of the frenchbody politic

From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 198-223

  Colwill, Elizabeth ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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