Natural Frontiers Revisited: France's Boundaries since the Seventeenth Century

1990/12/01 by Peter Sahlins · 117 citations
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paper · doi:10.1086/ahr/95.5.1423

published in The American Historical Review 95(5), 1423-1451 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

Peter Sahlins; Natural Frontiers Revisited: France's Boundaries since the Seventeenth Century, The American Historical Review, Volume 95, Issue 5, 1 December 19

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