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Memory and Modernity - Island Stories. By Raphael Samuel. New York: Verso, 1999. Pp. xxii+391. $22.00 (paper). - Moments of Modernity. Edited by Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, and Chris Waters. London and New York: Rivers Oram, 1999. Pp. xiv+290. $23.00 (paper).
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