HST487Gender, Sex, & Science

in Popular Culture Spring 2010

Michael Unsworth

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Meyer, Jack Allen. An annotated bibliography of the Napoleonic era: recent publications, 1945-1985 (New York : Greenwood Press, 1987): xi.

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• Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research for history students (New York : Oxford

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