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| Title | The age we live in: a history of the nineteenth century, Volume 1, Part 1 The age we live in: a history of the nineteenth century, James Taylor |
| Author | James Taylor |
| Publisher | Mackenzie, 1882 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Jun 2006 |
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