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Praising and Prodding George Steinmetz’s The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought - George Steinmetz, The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2023, 576 p.)
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George Steinmetz, The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2023, 576 p.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2024
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- European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , December 2023 , pp. 431 - 435
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- © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of European Journal of Sociology
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