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Book Title: Edmund Burke for Our Time : Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 6in
Author: William F. Byrne
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Modern / 18th Century, Political, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
