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Abu-Lughod's Egalitarian World Order. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Victor Lieberman
Victor Lieberman
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University of Michigan
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The Imperial State in the Middle Ages
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 544 - 550
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1993

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