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The Conversion of Imagination

From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville

Matthew W. Maguire

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$80.00 • £69.95 • €72.95

ISBN 9780674021884

Publication Date: 03/31/2006

298 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

Harvard Historical Studies

World

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Matthew W. Maguire is Assistant Professor of History and Humanities at Kenyon College.

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