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Örtmek Ben Wilson: Decency and Disorder (ePUB)

Brilliant young historian Ben Wilson explores a time when licentious Britain tried to straighten out its moral code, ridding itself of its boisterous pastimes, plain-speaking and drunkenness – raising uncomfortable but fascinating parallels with our own age. Decency and Disorder is about the generation who grew up during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, and some of its most exciting figures.

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Dil İngilizce ● Biçim EPUB ● ISBN 9780571317202 ● Yayımcı Faber & Faber ● Yayınlanan 2014 ● İndirilebilir 3 kez ● Döviz EUR ● Kimlik 5434683 ● Kopya koruma Adobe DRM

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